Helicopters flying along Potomac frequently pose dangers to passenger jets
Wednesday’s fatal collision and two other incidents dramatically illustrate the challenges pilots and air traffic controllers ...
Many feared dead after passenger jet, helicopter collide, crash into Washington's Potomac River
By Trevor Hunnicutt, David Shepardson and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scores of people are feared dead after an American ...
'Spray of sparks': Witness describes midair collision over Potomac River
While driving home, Ari Shulman said a "spray of sparks" in the sky caught his attention as he watched in horror the midair ...
No survivors expected in American Airlines, Army helicopter crash over Potomac River
We are now at the point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation,” said John Donnelly, the fire ...
'The helicopter and the plane crashed in the river': Audio from air traffic control describes disaster over Potomac
Air traffic control watched in horror on Wednesday night as a passenger jet and a U.S. military helicopter collided near ...
More than two dozen bodies pulled from Potomac River after plane collides with military helicopter
WASHINGTON — More than a dozen bodies have been pulled from the Potomac River after a plane collided with a military ...
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Helicopters flying along Potomac River frequently pose dangers to passenger jets
On Tuesday night, just 24 hours before a deadly collision between a military helicopter and a regional jet at Reagan National Airport, a different passenger jet coming in for a landing at the airport ...
Pilots had reported near-misses with helicopters at Reagan National Airport in the years before the deadly crash
In the three years before the deadly collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight near Reagan ...