DC Crash Update: Helicopter Crew May Not Have Heard Crucial Instructions
The Black Hawk was conducting a check flight, and the pilot was being tested on night vision goggle uses and instrument flying.
A timeline of last month’s air disaster in Washington, the deadliest in the US since 2001
More than two weeks after a helicopter and airplane collision over Washington killed 67 people, investigators have completed ...
What is known about the deadly January air crash between a passenger jet and US Army helicopter
Last month, an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided as the plane prepared to land at Washington ...
Second-by-Second Timeline of D.C. Plane Crash Revealed, Questions Remain About What Helicopter Pilots Heard and Saw
Investigators are releasing new details about what happened in the seconds leading up to the deadly D.C. plane crash — and say that the Black Hawk helicopter crew may have missed instructions from air ...
Helicopter crew in collision with plane may not have heard key instruction from tower, NTSB says
Investigators say the crew of the helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet might not have heard key air traffic controller instructions.
Black Hawk helicopter’s altimeter may have been inaccurate, pilots may have missed some calls from control tower
A preliminary analysis of the flight data and voice recorder on board a Black Hawk helicopter leading up to the collision ...
D.C. Crash Update: Helicopter crew may have been getting incorrect altitude readings
The NTSB said today the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into a passenger jet over the Potomac River may have been getting incorrect altitude readings ahead of the collision. NBC News’ Erin ...
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Recovery mission ongoing, victims continue to be identified after deadly midair crash | The latest
Heavy airport volume at DCA on Friday morning also caused all flights leaving from and landing ... the time of the crash. The U.S. Army confirmed at 11 p.m. that the helicopter involved in the ...
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Flight 5342 and the Black Hawk were in tightly controlled airspace. How could a catastrophic accident happen?
Some have involved close calls between landing planes and helicopters, CNN reported. Only the day before the crash, a flight on approach to DCA had to take action to avoid a helicopter operating ...
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Washington DC plane crash: Helicopter black box recovered as salvage operation underway
The wreckage of the helicopter was also recovered. Just 24 hours before the plane crash another jet approaching Reagan Washington Airport was forced to abort its landing when a helicopter flew ...
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A passenger jet had to abort a landing at Reagan National Airport just 24 hours before fatal crash due to a helicopter
A passenger jet had to suddenly abort its landing ... crash that occurred on Wednesday night, when an American Airlines regional jet inbound from Kansas collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk ...
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Charlotte passenger was on flight behind plane that crashed over Potomac
An Army helicopter crash with American Airlines Flight 5342 over the Potomac River on Wednesday night, killing all 64 people on board the plane and the three soldiers in the helicopter. James ...