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On January 29, 2025, a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter collided mid-air with American Airlines Flight 5342 (operated by PSA Airlines as American Eagle), [a] a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner, over the Potomac River, about half a mile (800 m) short of runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.
Laura Lynch, a founding member of the Dixie Chicks band, has died in a car crash near El Paso, officials confirmed. Lynch, 65, was killed instantly in a head-on collision Friday evening by an ...
The crash took place three days following the release of the band’s fifth studio album Street Survivors. The album cover showed the band surrounded by flames. Following the plane crash, MCA replaced the image with a new cover, showing the band against a simple black background, which was on the back of the original sleeve. [20]
Debris was spread in a 5-mile (8 km) radius from the crash site and firefighters attending the crash site used 4,000 US gallons (3,300 imp gal; 15,000 L) of foam to extinguish the post-crash fire. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Witnesses reported seeing the aircraft on fire with a smoking engine and descending in a flat spin .
The investigation also found weather conditions and pilot fatigue as contributing causes to the crash.The cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head. [92] May 28 – Pilot Bill Gordon died after crash landing P-47 Thunderbolt "Jacky's Revenge" into the Hudson River while attempting an emergency landing.
The crash was the subject of episode 10, season 18 of Mayday, titled "Dead of Winter". [ 24 ] In February 1990, Reader's Digest detailed the flight crew and some of the passengers in its article "Miracle In The Blizzard".
The crash was the first U.S.-owned 757 accident and is currently the deadliest aviation accident to occur in Colombia. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] It was also the deadliest accident involving a Boeing 757 at that time, [ 5 ] but was surpassed by Birgenair Flight 301 which crashed seven weeks later with 189 fatalities. [ 6 ]
Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 was a regularly scheduled flight departing Boston for Baltimore, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and St. Louis.Captain James Elrod (47) and First Officer William Heckendorn (26) were at the controls.