Some passengers felt a little uneasy at BWI Thurgood Marshall on Thursday as they grappled with the news from officials that there were no survivors in the Flight 5342 crash in the Potomac.
The archbishops of Washington and Baltimore offered prayers on Thursday after a deadly plane crash near downtown Washington, D.C.
PAT-25, do you have the CRJ in sight?” the controller asks the helicopter pilot, according to audio posted by the Associated Press.
Passengers aboard a flight from New Orleans to Washington, D.C., witnessed a mid-air collision involving a Blackhawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet near Reagan National Airport.
As many as 60 passengers and four crew members were aboard American Eagle Flight 5342, and the Black Hawk helicopter was carrying three soldiers. There were no survivors.
A tragic crash occurred near Reagan National Airport, with a jet and an Army helicopter colliding in the Potomac River, leaving all on board feared dead.
After a passenger plane and military helicopter collided Wednesday night over the Potomac River in Washington, emergency responders from Maryland aided rescue efforts, and Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport received some planes that had been bound for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Local aviation experts say the deadly plane collision near Washington, D.C., came down to one thing: a communication error. They say the Black Hawk helicopter most likely misjudged how close the American Airlines plane was, or could have called out what they thought were the lights of the plane but were not.
Flight data showed the plane coming from New Orleans looping around Reagan before heading to Baltimore moments after the collision. To jet was rerouted to Baltimore before 8:10 p.m. and landed at about 8:15 p.m., according to FlightAware .
Baltimore County figure skater Ting Cui was competing at U.S. Nationals in Wichita, Kansas, this week and knew several victims in the deadly plane crash in Washington, D.C. “The figure skating community is small,
Officials believe there are no survivors following a crash in DC between a passenger plane and an Army helicopter.
The plane collided with a helicopter just before it was scheduled to land. This is a developing story and will be updated.