Air Crash in Washington: Airliner Collides with Military Helicopter
Yesterday, 01/29/25 at 9:00 p.m., a Bombardier CRJ700 aircraft operating flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas by the airline PSA Airlines (owned by American Airlines) collided with a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk military helicopter over Washington, near Ronald Reagan Airport, causing the death of 64 people including 60 passengers and 4 crew members.
No official toll has yet been released after the accident between a plane from the regional airline PSA Airlines and a military helicopter. Both aircraft fell into the Potomac River, where the search for possible survivors is being carried out in “extremely difficult conditions”.
A regional airliner PSA Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines Group, crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, January 29, after colliding with a military helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in the U.S. capital.
According to company officials, the flight, which came from Wichita, Kansas, was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members. It was scheduled to land around 9 p.m. local time (3 a.m. Paris time), according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
In a message relayed on social media by the new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, an army spokeswoman confirmed that the aircraft was conducting “a training flight.”