aviation incident at Washington National Airport on January 29, 2025
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2025 Potomac River mid-air collision - Wikipedia
1 day ago - On December 17, the government admitted in a court filing in response to the lawsuit that it was partially at fault for the crash and that it owed and had breached its duty of care to the plaintiffs. The filing said that an air traffic controller did not follow the proper procedure for visual separation and that the helicopter pilots failed to remain vigilant. However, the filing suggested that others, including the pilots of the jet and the airlines, may also have played a role and denied negligence on the part of the air traffic controllers and government officials.
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Durham woman identified as third soldier aboard Army helicopter that crashed into plane in DC
February 3, 2025 - Rebecca began her career in the United States Army as a distinguished military graduate in ROTC at the University of North Carolina, and was in the top 20% of cadets nationwide. She achieved the rank of Captain, having twice served as a Platoon Leader and as a Company Executive Officer in the 12th Aviation Battalion, Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. With more than 450 hours of flight time, she earned certification as a pilot-in-command after extensive testing by the most senior and experienced pilots in her battalion.
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Army Helicopter Was Able to See American Airlines Jet Well Before Slamming Into It, Killing 67, Investigators Believe
5 days ago - A simulated view from an NTSB visibility study of the Army helicopter on Jan. 29, 2025, before colliding with American Airlines Flight 5342. ... The jet, piloted by Capt. Jonathan Campos and Sam Lilley, the first officer and co-pilot, was flying to D.C.
Daily Mail
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Terrifying animation shows pilot view of DC crash with helicopter
5 days ago - A terrifying animation has revealed a pilot's-eye view of the tragic mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter that killed 67 people in January last year · The crash on January 29, 2025 over the Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington DC was the deadliest commercial aviation accident in the US in almost 25 years
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NTSB blames 'deep' systemic failures for deadly midair collision near Washington, D.C.
5 days ago - An NTSB simulation of the helicopter's perspective shows that the pilots had limited visibility through the night-vision goggles. Investigators believe the helicopter pilots mistakenly thought the American Airlines jet was one of several other planes lining up to land on Runway 1, and did not have an accurate understanding of its flight path.
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Trans woman falsely linked to DC plane crash sues influencer for defamation | Washington DC plane crash | The Guardian
April 9, 2025 - Jo Ellis was wrongfully accused of flying the helicopter that collided with a plane over the Potomac River earlier this year.
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$400 GPS device could have prevented deadly midair crash near DC: NTSB chair - ABC News
4 days ago - The second animation shows the viewpoint of pilots from Flight 5342 as the plane approaches the runway to land. According to the cockpit voice recorder transcript shared by the NTSB, the last words about one second before the crash from both the first officer and the captain were "oh" and "ohhh ohhhh" as the animation shows the helicopter colliding with the plane.
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reddit.com › r/conspiracy › remember the dc helicopter crash in january that killed 64 people, including 12 children? turns out the female pilot who was flying was given multiple warnings and was directly told by her male instructor/copilot to turn the opposite direction of the passenger jet to avoid a collision.
r/conspiracy on Reddit: Remember the DC helicopter crash in January that killed 64 people, including 12 children? Turns out the female pilot who was flying was given multiple warnings and was directly told by her male instructor/copilot to turn the opposite direction of the passenger jet to avoid a collision.
September 23, 2024 -
NY Times — Two seconds after the controller’s cut out instruction about passing behind the jet, Warrant Officer Eaves replied, affirming for the second time that the Black Hawk saw the traffic. “PAT two-five has the aircraft in sight. Request visual separation,” he said.
“Vis sep approved,” the controller replied.
It was their last communication.
The Black Hawk was 15 seconds away from crossing paths with the jet. Warrant Officer Eaves then turned his attention to Captain Lobach.
He told her he believed that air traffic control wanted them to turn left, toward the east river bank.
Turning left would have opened up more space between the helicopter and Flight 5342, which was heading for Runway 33 at an altitude of roughly 300 feet.
She did not turn left.
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As a former Army Aviator, the simple fact is the Instructor Pilot should’ve taken control of the aircraft when the other pilot failed to comply with altitude or course corrections. This accident was 100 % preventable. Same as Toronto
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The flight path has the helicopter pilot flying towards TWO separate flights prior to the crash
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Special Report: The night everything at DCA finally went wrong - The Air Current
3 weeks ago - At PSA Airlines, only one pilot out of four interviewed by the NTSB had an accurate and complete understanding of the structure of the D.C. helicopter routes — an individual who happened to have seven years of prior experience as a military pilot in the area. Two pilots had no awareness that published routes for helicopters even existed. One DCA-based captain said it would have been “really helpful for us to have [had] more awareness if we would’ve known that there’s like a specific helicopter route in that area.” A line check airman said for PSA pilots, the helicopters operating in the D.C.
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Pilot dies alongside 3 nieces on wedding day in tragic Arizona helicopter crash
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A year after the DCA crash, families find meaning in what was recovered - The Washington Post
3 days ago - An American Eagle flight and a U.S. Army helicopter collided on Jan. 29, 2025, killing everyone aboard both aircraft. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) ... The brown teddy bear smelled like oil and jet fuel.
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D.C. Plane Crash Was Caused by Helicopter Route, Army Helicopter's Failed Attempt to Fly Around: NTSB
5 days ago - There were three soldiers on the helicopter — Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Eaves, 28-year-old Staff Sgt. Ryan O'Hara and Army Capt. Rebecca Lobach, the pilot — which was in the air as part of a night evaluation for Lobach, with Eaves as ...
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Safety Board Blames F.A.A. For Multiple Failures in D.C. Crash - The New York Times
The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the Federal Aviation Administration had approved dangerous flight routes that allowed an Army helicopter to fly into the path of a passenger jet over the Potomac River on Jan. 29, 2025, to calamitous results. In a meeting on Tuesday, the investigating board also castigated the agency for not doing enough to respond to warnings about longtime risks to safety and found a complacent culture within the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport that relied too heavily on pilots in the airspace being able to see and steer clear of each others’ aircraft, a practice called visual separation.
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Social Media Posts Misidentify Pilot Killed in Midair Collision Over D.C. - FactCheck.org
February 27, 2025 - The U.S. Army identified one of the Black Hawk helicopter pilots killed in the midair crash with a passenger jet on Jan. 29 as Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach. But social media posts have falsely identified two different women to claim the pilot was ...
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Daily Mail
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One pilot killed and another critically injured after helicopter plunges out of the sky following midair collision | Daily Mail Online
December 28, 2025 - Trump's 'emergency' wrecking ball ... company to give back ... A pilot has been killed and another critically injured after two helicopters collided mid air and crashed near an airport in New Jersey....
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Washington DC plane crash: Army withholding name of female soldier killed as helicopter black box recovered | US News | Sky News
Investigators are examining the actions of the military pilot as well as air traffic control, after the helicopter apparently flew into the jet's path.
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A second pilot has died after a midair helicopter crash in New ...
December 29, 2025 - The aircrafts, an Enstrom F-28A and an Enstrom 280C helicopter, collided in mid-air at about 11:25 a.m. Sunday after departing from Hammonton Municipal Airport, the Hammonton Police Department said. One of the pilots, Michael Greenberg, 71, of ...
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US safety board finds FAA failures led to fatal mid-air collision | Reuters
5 days ago - Justice Department has admitted federal liability in crash · WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board found on Tuesday that a series of systemic failures by the Federal Aviation Administration led to a devastating mid-air collision that killed 67 people last year. The January 2025 collision between an American Airlines (AAL.O), opens new tab regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) was the deadliest U.S.