While driving home, Ari Shulman said a "spray of sparks" in the sky caught his attention as he watched in horror the midair collision unfold.
Officials: Likely no survivors from plane, Army helicopter crash in D.C. A passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter collided in midair Wednesday night and crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport near Washington,
Meteorologist Jackie Layer looks at conditions in the Potomac River as crews searched the waters on Jan. 30, 2025, a day after an American Airlines plane and a military helicopter crashed.
ABC15 spoke with military officials in the Valley to discuss what happened in last night's Washington D.C. area plane crash.
We are now at the point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation,” said John Donnelly, the fire chief in the nation’s capital.
Search efforts continue after an American Airlines plane from Wichita, with 64 people on board, collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River.
During a press conference on Thursday morning, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the crash was "absolutely" preventable.
Recovery crews in Washington, D.C. are facing challenges due to the Potomac River's frigid 35-degree temperatures, which pose risks of cold shock. Training programs emphasize the importance of protective gear and monitoring exposure time to safeguard responders in such extreme conditions.
President Trump on Thursday at first news conference since the aircraft collision over the Potomac River, blamed diversity requirements at the Federal Aviation Administration and Presidents Obama and Biden for the midair collision over the Potomac River on Wednesday night.
An eyewitness to the Washington plane disaster has described seeing the plane at a 90 degree-angle seconds before the crash.Ari Schulman said he was driving home when he witnessed the collision."Initially I saw the plane and it looked fine.
An NTSB-led investigation is in full swing to identify factors that led to the Jan. 29 midair collision between an American Eagle Bombardier CRJ-700 operated by PSA Airlines on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) and a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter.