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SA 315B Lama, 2003. The Lama was developed specifically to provide a rotorcraft with exceptional high-altitude performance. In practice, the type found considerable use within regions that possessed extensive mountain ranges, such as South America and India, being capable of lifting loads and deploying personnel in areas that had been previously impossible to have otherwise achieved.
A screen grab captured from a video shows a regional plane that collided in midair with a military helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 29, 2025.
Officials have recovered the cockpit voice recorder - also known as the black box - from the helicopter involved in the plane crash that killed 67 people at Ronald Reagan Washington National ...
The Army helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines plane was on an “annual proficiency training flight” when it crashed, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in a video statement ...
A video recorder and four video cassettes were found inside the helicopter. The investigators hoped the tapes might have clues to the reason for the crash but apparently the recorder had not been operating at the time of the incident. The aircraft had not been equipped with a flight data recorder (FDR) or a cockpit voice recorder (CVR). [4]
Three of the injured were treated and released on the same day. The injured included a person who was struck in the head by debris from the crash while eating inside a diner. [10] [11] The crash was the second fatal accident involving Jet Rescue since a 2023 crash in Morelos, Mexico, that killed four people, resulting from a runway excursion. [23]
The collision between a passenger flight and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29 marks the first fatal disaster involving a U.S. commercial airliner in 16 years.
Less than a minute after take-off, the departing helicopter (VH-XKQ) [8] collided with the arriving helicopter (VH-XH9). [ 8 ] [ 9 ] This resulted in the departing helicopter’s main rotor blades and gearbox separating, [ 10 ] causing the helicopter to crash on a sandbar , killing four on board including the pilot and leaving three in critical ...