Investigators are analyzing the plane’s flight recorder data in a lab, and expect to produce a preliminary report on the crash in 30 days.
American Airlines CEO Robert Isom released a third statement Thursday following the crash of American Eagle Flight 5342, saying the AA family was devastated and hurting but focusing on taking care of the victims' families.
Wednesday’s fatal collision and two other incidents dramatically illustrate the challenges pilots and air traffic controllers face in the complex, security-sensitive skies above the nation’s capital.
The athletes were flying from Wichita, Kan. to Washington D.C. on American Eagle Flight 5342 when the crash occurred around 9 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said.
A regional jet carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Reagan National Airport grounded all flights.
By David Shepardson, Trevor Hunnicutt and Brad Brooks WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the Potomac River after a midair collision near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night,
Grace Maxwell, a Cedarville University student, was one of the 60 passengers on the American Airlines regional passenger jet that collided mid-air with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter above the Potomac River on Wednesday,
A Reagen Airport accident has claimed the lives of many. A mid-air crash that happened on the evening of January 29, 2025, involved an American Eagle Flight 5342 colliding with a U.
An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with a regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday evening, U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News.
An American Airlines flight going from Wichita to Washington, D.C., went down in the Potomac River after colliding with a military Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday. It comes just one year after Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport started offering nonstop flights to Washington.
From out of nowhere, a small darting light and then a fireball. That was the view Wednesday night, what I saw in a video posted to the Washington Post’s website. The fate of American Eagle Flight 5342 from Wichita colliding with a U.