Delta Air Lines Flight 2983 was cleared for takeoff on Friday around 3:15 p.m., the same time four U.S. Air Force T-38 Talon ...
The collision likely occurred at an altitude just under 300 feet (91 meters), as the plane descended toward the helicopter, which was well above its 200-foot (61-meter) limit for that location.
open image in gallery A vigil is held at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum for the 28 skaters, family members and coaches who died in last week’s plane crash ... to the DC area from a ...
On Jan. 29, an American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members collided with a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers while the plane was coming in ...
Route 4 is the same path taken by the Army Black Hawk helicopter when it collided with Flight 5342 just seconds before the plane was to land. The flight path covers Hains Point, located across the ...
About the crash: All 67 people on the aircraft — 64 on the American Airlines plane and three in the Blackhawk ... data was for the close calls at the DC airport. “The data was there, it ...
Duffy agreed, telling reporters during a separate news conference the “data was there” but “it wasn’t effectively analyzed to see that we had this kind of risk” at the DC-area airport.
Federal investigators have raised concerns of a potential for another deadly plane crash at Reagan National Airport, after a midair collision earlier this year killed 67. The National ...
It will take more than a year to get the final NTSB report. 1:55 DC plane crash: How the black boxes will help investigators piece together final moments Aviation safety expert John Cox said he ...
During the new conference, Homendy outlined a history of close calls at Reagan and said the NTSB continues to investigate the devastating crash between an American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army ...