Investigators have yet to determine whether the crew of an Army helicopter was wearing the devices when the Black Hawk crashed into a civilian airliner last week.

Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said that the pilots aboard the U.S. Army helicopter that collided with an American Airlines plane were carrying night vision goggles — but an expert says that could have hurt their ability to see other aircraft.

Flying a Black Hawk helicopter with night vision goggles presents a number of challenges. In the wake of the tragic midair collision between a Black Hawk and an American Airlines flight in Washington D.

Hundreds of families are in mourning after an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, with both aircraft plunging into the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. No one survived.

The Black Haw's Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast - which allowed it to broadcast its location and other information - was disabled during the crash.

Amid the ongoing DC plane-helicopter crash probe, US investigators have started looking into whether Black Hawk soldiers were wearing night vision goggles.

Data from a cockpit voice recorder of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an airliner near Washington, D.C, last week suggests the crew was wearing night-vision goggles.

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