In January 2025, an unwitting Army Black Hawk Helicopter slammed into a descending American Airlines regional passenger plane, killing 67 people, NTSB officials say

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Using Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2024, the independent federal agency was able to model what happened in the moments before the crash for both the Black Hawk belonging to the US Army's 12th Aviation Battalion and the American Airlines medium-haul aircraft.

A National Transportation Safety Board hearing will determine the probable cause of the Jan. 29, 2025, D.C. plane crash between American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk helicopter

After a yearlong investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board did not find a single cause for the deadly collision near Washington, D.C., but blamed the crash on multiple systemic failures.

Investigators have uncovered numerous factors that contributed to a U.S. Army helicopter and a passenger airplane colliding over Washington, D.C., last January, killing 67 people in the deadliest U.S.

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“Instead of writing aviation regulation in blood, let’s start writing it in data,” said Lilley, who is a pilot himself and earlier in his career flew Black Hawk helicopters in the Washington area. “Because all the data was there to show this accident was going to happen. This accident was completely preventable.”

Black Hawk pilots may not have heard a critical directive from air traffic control to fly behind the American Airlines plane in the seconds before it collided with the jet, and may have had “bad data” on the altitude they were flying at, according to ...

Officials confirmed the crew of the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines passenger plane near Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport may not have known it was flying too high and may not have heard critical ...

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