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A crane floats on the Potomac River while removing wreckage from an American Airlines plane on Feb. 6, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. An American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided ...
A barge carrying a crane moves parts of the wreckage from the Potomac River after American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter crashed near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the river, by the ...
The two aircraft collided at a height yet to be precisely established (at its last tracking point, the plane was below 300 feet [91 m]), causing the helicopter to explode and crash into the Potomac River. The airliner's airspeed was 128 miles per hour (206 km/h; 111 kn). [34]
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.
At 4:01 pm EST, it crashed into the 14th Street Bridge across the Potomac River, 0.75 nmi (0.9 mi; 1.4 km) from the end of the runway. The plane hit six cars and a truck on the bridge, and tore away 97 feet (30 m) of the bridge's rail and 41 feet (12 m) of the bridge's wall. [4]: 5 The aircraft then plunged into the freezing Potomac River.
A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle Flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter, by Ronald Reagan Washington National ...
Large sections of the plane plunged into the icy Potomac River following the crash, where it was later found in three pieces. Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Giles/U S Coast Guard/UPI/Shutterstock