Passenger jet collides with helicopter at Reagan Airport near Washington
A military helicopter and a passenger plane carrying 64 people collided midair with the Potomac River near Washington, DC, causing a major emergency and the grounding of all flights.
After departing from Kansas, the passenger plane was about to make an landing at Reagan National Airport.
American Airlines, whose subsidiary operated the flight, said “there were 60 passengers and four crew members on board the aircraft”.
A representative for the US Army claimed that the helicopter involved was a Black Hawk model carrying three soldiers. They had been on a “training flight”, a separate military spokesperson said in a statement.
No confirmed casualties information is available at this time, according to Washington police.
The Federal Aviation Administration ordered the grounding of all planes at Reagan National, and Washington’s police said on X that “multiple agencies” were responding to the crash site in the Potomac.
All 49 passengers on Continental Flight 3407 from New Jersey to Buffalo, New York collided in 2009, causing the most serious fatal US collision to occur.
Source: Aljazeera
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