The National Transportation Safety Board says it has recovered two so-called “black boxes” from the American Airlines regional jet, following the deadly collision with an Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday evening.
A Georgia state representative and former army pilot told Channel 2 about safety conditions in the air space over Washington.
ATLANTA — After an American Airlines passenger jet and Army helicopter collided over the Potomac River in Washington D.C. on Wednesday night, several flights between Atlanta and Washington, D.C. have been impacted on Thursday.
A look at the victims of Wednesday’s devastating mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army helicopter near Washington, D.C.
A Georgia high school says that one of the soldiers involved in the mid-air collision was a former student and a member of their MCJROTC program.
There were 14 members of the figure skating community reportedly aboard the plane that collided mid-air with a military helicopter.
There’s a story about Figure skater Jon Maravilla missing the flight from Wichita, Kansas to Washington DC that ultimately crashed into a helicopter and into the Potomac River, in which the size of Maravilla’s dog was the reason he missed the flight.
An American Airlines jet has collided with a Blackhawk helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp posted on his X account on Thursday afternoon, identifying two of the victims involved in the fatal plane crash Wednesday night at Reagan National Airport in D.C.
The father of the man piloting an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter mid-air in Washington, D.C. has spoken out. Sam Lilley, 28, was one of two people piloting the flight from Wichita, Kansas, his father Timothy Lilley told Fox 5 Atlanta. All 67 people on board both aircraft are feared to be dead, officials say.
Flights at Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. were suspended Thursday morning after the collision of an American Airlines jet and a military helicopter Wednesday.
A dramatic plane crash in frigid temperatures. And a search and rescue that saved lives on the same partially frozen Potomac River. Almost 43 years ago to the day, tragedy struck when a commercial jet − Air Florida Flight 90 − plunged into icy waters shortly after an afternoon takeoff from the same airport where a passenger jet with 64 people aboard collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night.