After a Wednesday night airborne collision above Washington, D.C., left 67 people dead, investigators are looking for answers.
A tiny passenger plane on its last approach to Reagan Washington National Airport, just south of the city, collided with an Army helicopter at approximately 8:48 p.m.
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What we currently know about the crash is depicted in the visuals below. When new information becomes available, they will be updated.
A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter with three personnel on board and American Eagle Flight 5342, a small aircraft with 60 passengers and four crew members, collided.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated on Thursday that the helicopter was conducting an annual competency training flight when it crashed.
According to data from the U.S. Army, which keeps track of aviation-related incidents, there were more major incidents last year that resulted in fatalities, serious injuries, or damage exceeding millions of dollars than there had been in the previous ten years.
The plane’s height dropped from 4,000 feet to about 300 feet at the time of the disaster, according to data from the airplane tracking website ADS-B Exchange. According to its most recent broadcast, the helicopter was flying close to 200 feet.
President Trump stated Thursday that there were no survivors, making this the second aviation tragedy this decade with ten or more fatalities and the first commercial aircraft death in the United States since 2009.