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.
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 near Washington D.C.’s Ronald ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Deadly DC plane crash investigation examining helicopter altitude
In the weeks since the crash, the NTSB has been analyzing flight data and damage to determine how this happened.
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 ...
Black Hawk crew might not have heard crucial tower instruction, NTSB says
The National Transportation Safety Board said the helicopter’s cockpit voice recorder didn’t capture key directions from ...
What we know about the American Airlines plane and Army helicopter crash over D.C.'s Potomac River
A regional jet carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers. Here's what we know about the incident so far.
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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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‘Heartbreaking’ search for those killed in DC air crash as army helicopter’s black box recovered
The black box from the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a commercial jetliner and crashed into the Potomac ... as the plane was coming in for a landing at the airport, which is ...
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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 ...