The passenger jet collides with a helicopter at Reagan Airport near Washington | In the news with pictures
A American Airlines passenger plane that carries 64 people He collapsed In the Potomac River near Washington, DC, after colliding with a military helicopter at a training exercise late Wednesday, which encouraged a major urgent response and grounding of all flights.
Airliner He should have landed At the National Airport Reagan after flying from Kansas.
The American Airlines, whose branch was operating flight, said “there were 60 passengers and four crew members on the plane.”
The US army official said the helicopter was involved in the Black Hawk model, which was transporting three soldiers. They were on “training flight,” a separate military spokesman said in a statement.
Washington police said “there are currently no confirmed victims’ information.”
The Federal Air Force Administration ordered the basis of all aircraft in Reagan National, and Washington police said on X that “more agencies” responded to the site of a collision in the offspring.
The last major fatal collision in the US was in 2009, when the Continental Flight 3407 of New Jersey in Buffalo, New York, collapsed and killed all 49 people on board.
