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A screen capture captured from a video shows a regional plane crashed in the air with a military helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, DC, United States on January 29, 2025.
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He midair collision of a military helicopter and a American Airlines Regional Jetliner near Washington, the Reagan National Airport of DC on Wednesday night puts an end to a commercial safety streak of air trips that was a stranger to previous generations.
It is the most deadly aerial disaster in the American soil in more than 20 years.
The authorities said Thursday morning that they were changing a recovery effort to a rescue effort and that there were no survivors. Washington’s chief and EMS Chief John Donnelly said so far 27 bodies have been recovered.
American Eagle Flight 5342 by Wichita, Kansas, approached Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport at an altitude of approximately 300 feet when a Black Hawk helicopter from the US Army. Uu controlled three people collided with the commercial plane.
Sixty -four people, 60 passengers and four crew members, were aboard the American flight. The flight was operated by the American subsidiary carrier PSA Airlines. The plane was a CRJ700 Bombardier, a regional stream used for shorter routes.
The rescuers had run to recover the passengers of the frigides waters of the Potomac River on Wednesday night, but local officials said the conditions were challenging due to the strong winds.
The rescuers in boats work as the sun rises on the accident site on the Potomac River after a Black Hawk helicopter and a 5342 flight from Eagle American that approaches the Reagan Washington National Airport crashed and crashed out of Washington, USA, on January 30, 2025.
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The United States has spent years without a Fatal crash of the commercial airline. The last fatal accident of the US commercial passenger airline occurred in February 2009 when Continental flight crashed into a house when it arrived in Buffalo, New York, killing the 49 people on board and a person on the ground.
The accident of that turboprop plane caused federal regulations that require more rest and training for pilots.
The most fatal incident in the recent memory was American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 that crashed in November 2001 shortly after he took off from the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, headed to the Dominican Republic. The 260 people on the flight were killed and another five died on the ground on Queens.
Aircraft accidents have become extremely rare, which security experts often attribute overlapping and redundant security measures.
“It is extremely sure. Even with this accident I will say that it is extremely safe,” said Jeff Guzzetti, a retired air security investigator from the US National Transportation Security Board. UU. And the Federal Aviation Administration.
The NTSB will direct an investigation into the accident on Wednesday. It will include FAA, American Airlines, crew members and other parties.
The NTSB will issue a preliminary report, but a final report that determines the cause or causes of a plane accident can take months, if not more than a year.
Researchers will examine everything, from air traffic control recordings, training records, voice voice and data recorders to black boxes if they are discovered, along with a series of other factors.
The accident presents a challenge to the president Donald Trump days in his new term. He has not yet appointed a candidate to become a permanent head of the Federal Aviation Administration after Mike Whitaker appointed by Biden resigned on January 20, when Trump’s term began.
FAA in 2023 established a plan designed to further improve security and eliminate everything “nearby calls“In airports.
