Air traffic control audio shortly before the collision captures the helicopter pilot saying, “PAT 2-5 has aircraft in sight, request visual separation.” ...
A passenger plane collided midair with a Black Hawk helicopter and crashed in the Potomac river near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport outside of Washington, DC, Wednesday evening.
The midair collision of an American Eagle-branded regional jet and a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter near Washington, DC may be the first fatal crash involving a US airline since the 2009 crash of a Colgan ...