Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are feared dead as a recovery mission is underway.
Recent airplane incidents and close calls nationwide have raised concerns of safety protocols, and in a news conference on Thursday, President Donald Trump questioned if Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) may be partly to blame for the crash near Reagan National.
Two new videos of the fatal American Airlines crash on Wednesday night are adding to speculation about how it happened.
Top US officials said a military helicopter was on a regular training mission when it collided with a civilian airliner over the Potomac River on Wednesday night. The scenario its pilots were preparing for was anything but routine.
An American Airlines plane with 64 people on board collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River.
The midair collision Wednesday night between a regional American Airlines passenger jet and a Black Hawk military helicopter over the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., was "absolutely" preventable,
Sixty-seven people died in a collision between a Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet operated by PSA Airlines and a military Black Hawk helicopter.
Crews have recovered 41 bodies from the wreckage of the American Airlines regional jet and Army Black Hawk helicopter sitting in the Potomac River. Now, they're waiting for additional equipment to pull pieces of fuselage from the river in the hopes of reaching those unaccounted for.
The black box from a Connecticut-made Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopter involved in a deadly plane crash Wednesday is now at NTSB headquarters, the AP reported.
New footage has emerged of the mid-air collision between an American Airlines flight and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport.
Two fathers and service members have been identified as among the three crew members who died Wednesday when their Black Hawk helicopter collided with a passenger jet over the Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport, killing all 67 people aboard both aircraft.
A timeline of the tragic collision between a commercial plane and a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River, with insights into the ongoing investigation.