2 weeks ago - Washington, DC: NTSB. Archived from the original on February 15, 2025. Retrieved February 15, 2025 – via YouTube. ↑ Garrison, Joey; Nguyen, Thao (January 29, 2025). "Plane, helicopter collide, crash into Potomac River in Washington". USA Today. Archived from the original on January 30, 2025. Retrieved January 29, 2025. ↑ Stewart, Phil; Ali, Idrees (February 1, 2025). "Crashed US Army Black Hawk ...

1 day ago - The captain of the Amazon Prime jet that overshot a runway and killed five people was a former US Army Black Hawk helicopter instructor and aviation safety officer, the Daily Mail can reveal.

January 31, 2025 - The Black Hawk helicopter's black box has been recovered and is in "good condition," the NTSB said today. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

January 31, 2025 - ... The US Army Black Hawk helicopter involved in Wednesday's crash near Washington was on "a training flight" when it collided midair with a passenger jet, a military spokesman said.

February 2, 2025 - The National Transportation Safety Board has recovered the black box from the military Black Hawk helicopter, Todd Inman, NTSB board member on scene, said at an afternoon news conference.

April 15, 2026 - Although the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board identified systemic failures in airspace design and management as the probable cause of the midair collision, it also found that the Army should have identified and addressed hazards associated with altitude exceedances on the Washington, D.C. helicopter routes — a problem that was likely exacerbated by inaccurate altimeters on older UH-60L “Lima” Black Hawks including the one involved in the crash. As previously detailed by TAC, helicopters on the D.C. route where the 2025 accident occurred exceeded maximum charted altitude limits nearly 20% of the time, causing conflicts with commercial aircraft operating at Washington, D.C.’s Reagan National Airport (DCA).

January 29, 2026 - A large portion of the damaged plane fuselage is lifted from the Potomac River during recovery efforts after the American Airlines crash, Feb. 3, 2025, in Arlington, Va. ... The government attorneys, in their 209-page filling on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, said that the pilots of both the Black Hawk and the regional jet "failed to maintain vigilance so as to see and avoid each other." And it admitted that the Black Hawk pilots' failure to maintain vigilance was "a proximate cause" of the accident.

January 31, 2026 - This was the 2025 collision, over the Potomac, between a US Army Black Hawk helicopter, on a night training mission, and a Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet, inbound from Wichita, Kansas, and about to land at National Airport in DC.

February 1, 2025 - Jan. 31, 3:00 a.m. ESTA day before the collision, a similar accident was likely avoided in the same area after a passenger plane was forced to execute a “go-around maneuver” to prevent a collision with a military helicopter in the area, according to the Associated Press. Citing flight tracking data and air traffic controller logs, the AP reported that an Embraer E-175 regional jet attempting to land at the Reagan Airport had to pull out of its approach after being warned by its onboard automated collision avoidance system—but managed to land safely after a go-around. Jan. 30, 11:30 p.m. ESTThe National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the crash, announced it had recovered the crashed plane’s cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder—which are sometimes referred to as “black boxes.” The two recorders were taken to the NTSB’s lab for evaluation.

January 30, 2025 - Not much is known about why the helicopter crashed into the plane, but images shared online showed a fiery explosion as the two collided mid-air over the night sky. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared a statement that said the Black Hawk was ...

February 15, 2025 - There's no indication the U.S. Army Black Hawk crew could tell there was an impending collision before its devastating crash with an American Airlines plane in Washington, D.C., National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Jennifer Homendy ...

February 3, 2025 - Both aircraft plunged into the icy Potomac River shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday and all 64 passengers on the American Airlines regional jet, along with three soldiers on the Black Hawk helicopter, are presumed dead.

February 2, 2025 - The fatal crash occurred while an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, with 64 people aboard, was preparing to land at Reagan National Airport. The plane collided with a Black Hawk helicopter, which had three soldiers onboard.

February 10, 2025 - Home1 / News2 / ABC7 News: Flight experts raise questions on Black Hawk helicopter involved... ... Greg Feith is a quoted expert in this coverage of the investigation into what may have gone wrong and caused an American Airlines commercial jet and a Black Hawk helicopter to collide. “The one concern I really have is why the Black Hawk crew was not at 200 feet or lower,” Feith said. https://flightsafetydetectives.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/FlightSafetyDetectivesatBoeing2-1-scaled.jpg 3024 4032 Jill Kurtz https://flightsafetydetectives.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/fsd-logo.png Jill Kurtz2025-02-10 14:26:072025-02-10 14:27:03ABC7 News: Flight experts raise questions on Black Hawk helicopter involved in DC plane crash · The Aftermath of the DC Mid-Air Collision – Episode 258February 19, 2025 - 5:32 am · UAVs, Advanced Air Mobility and Crowded Air Space – Episode 257February 12, 2025 - 5:04 am ·

March 30, 2026 - On January 29, 2025, PSA Airlines flight 5342 collided with a US Army Blackhawk helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., killing all 67 people aboard both aircraft. The accident was caused by a complex failure to manage the complex ...

April 29, 2025 - (NewsNation) — New details suggest missed instructions played a role in the January mid-air collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger jet in Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people.

January 30, 2025 - An American Airlines flight was preparing to land at the Reagan Washington National Airport when it collided mid-air with the military aircraft and split into three pieces.

April 28, 2025 - The pilot of the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines plane in DC made a fatal mistake in the moments before the collision, according to a new report.