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An American Airlines regional passenger jet was involved in a mid-air collision on Wednesday night with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, officials said.
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Everyone aboard a plane that collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., are feared dead, which would make it the deadliest U.S. air crash in nearly 24 years.
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National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Hommendy described the investigation into the crash Wednesday night as an “all-hands-on-deck event” for the agency during a news conference Thursday in which she appeared with members of the board and a senior investigator overseeing the probe.
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U.S. authorities said on Thursday it was not yet clear why a regional jet and a U.S. Army helicopter collided at a Washington airport, killing 67 people in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in more than 20 years.
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American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, was attempting to land when the plane and a Black Hawk helicopter collided.
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After an all-night search-and-rescue operation in frigid conditions and heavy winds on the icy Potomac, officials pivoted Thursday morning to recovery operations.
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An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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Divers are expected to return to the Potomac River as part of the recovery and investigation after the United States’ deadliest aviation disaster in almost a quarter century. The collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near Washington,
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