DC plane crash

[Pilot]

American Airlines flight from Wichita to Reagan crashes into a helicopter over Potomac as it approaches the airport, if early Twitter reports are to be believed.

This would snap a crazy long streak of commercial airline safety in the US, if I'm not mistaken.

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https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/pl...38205450&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

 

[Deskgrunt50]

There's some video out there that looks legit. So much speculation flying around. But it appears to be an awful situation with a big emergency response.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

From BNO News:

BREAKING: American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with a Black Hawk helicopter near D.C. airport, FAA says

 

[HanSenSE]

Not just a helicopter: A Blackhawk. How the heck do you not see one of those?

Edit: h/t Deskgrunt50.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Seeing reports of 60 people on the plane, but obviously nothing confirmed.

 

[Pilot]

Not just a helicopter: A Blackhawk. How the heck do you not see one of those?

What was a Blackhawk doing floating around in the commercial airliner approach to Reagan?

 

[HanSenSE]

What was a Blackhawk doing floating around in the commercial airliner approach to Reagan?

That too.

 

[Twirling Time]

CBS just broke in.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

For those with Amazon Prime, they stream some regional TV networks. Obviously Fox5 in DC is covering.

 

[HanSenSE]

For those with Amazon Prime, they stream some regional TV networks. Obviously Fox5 in DC is covering.

Haven't seen Fox in DC, but looks like they NBC station is there.

 

[SixToe]

From CNN's Ross Levitt


A passenger aircraft that crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, DC, collided midair with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while on approach to the runway, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.

The plane was Flight 5342 for American Airlines and was a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet. It departed from Wichita, Kansas, earlier on Wednesday.

The National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation, along with the FAA.

The FAA said its statement is based on preliminary information and subject to change.

 

[Twirling Time]

The last sizeable fatal commercial crash in the U.S. was the Colgan Air crash in New York in 2009 that killed 50. Before that was the 2006 crash in Louisville that involved a short runway and killed 49.

The last triple-digit toll in the U.S. was the American Flight 587 that killed 265 (5 on the ground) in Queens in November 2001.

Jet crashes were a staple of our youth.