Data confirmed that the air traffic controller alerted the helicopter to the presence of the CRJ-700 about two minutes before the crash.

Two employees with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority are facing stiff consequences for allegedly leaking surveillance video of the deadly mid-air collision between a regional American Airlines jet and Black Hawk military helicopter that occurred over the Potomac River last week.

Two employees at Ronald Reagan National Airport have been arrested following the plane crash in Washington, D.C. An American Airlines jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in the middle of the air on Wednesday evening,

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Two Washington, D.C., airport employees have been arrested in connection with the leak of a video showing the moment Flight 5342 collided with a Black Hawk helicopter on Jan. 29.

More than 60 people are presumed dead after an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter crashed midair near Washington, D.C, Wednesday evening, officials have said.Flight 5342 from Kansas was on the final approach to Ronald Reagan National Airport when it collided with the Black Hawk helicopter before exploding a huge fireball.

Recovery crews could be seen pulling the American Airlines' plane wreckage out of Washington DC's Potomac River on Monday. Sixty passengers and four crew members were on the American Airlines flight and three soldiers on the Black Hawk helicopter.

The wreckage of the American Airlines jet that collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter will begin being removed from the Potomac River on Monday.