A regional jet and a Black Hawk helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., plunging into the Potomac River. The crash occurred shortly before 9 p.m., resulting in a major search and rescue operation. Divers are working in challenging conditions, hampered by ice and darkness, to recover bodies from the wreckage.
Bodies have been recovered during search-and-rescue operations, NBC Washington reported, citing two sources close to the recovery efforts.
A commuter Colgan Air jet was on the approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport on Feb. 12, 2009, when it crashed into a house and The aircraft collided midair near Reagan Washington National Airport and plunged into the Potomac River, where dark, icy conditions were posing a challenge to search-and-rescue efforts.There are pieces of ice in the Potomac River as divers and other first responders are searching following Wednesday’s plane crash near Reagan Airport, Washington’s fire chief said.
“Divers are doing the same thing in the water. The water is dark, it is murky, and that is a very tough condition for them to dive in,” he said. Moran told NBC News that the regional jet was flying a route he is all too familiar with: Moran said that he lobbied for the direct Wichita-to-D.C. path and that he and his wife have flown it many times.“There’s no question that people on this flight would be people that I know,” Moran said.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser said a rescue operation is ongoing. There were 64 passengers and crew members on the regional jet, officials said.In the recording, someone — presumably a pilot — asks the air traffic controllers,"Tower, did you see that?” A controller responds, “Yep, we saw it."The controller details what they saw: “It was probably out in the middle of the river. Um, I just saw a fireball and then it was just gone. I haven’t seen anything since they hit the river.
Isom said that American is working with local, state and federal authorities on the emergency response, that it has a"go team" headed to Washington and that is cooperating with the NTSB. Hours after the collision over the Potomac River, at least one terminal at Reagan National Airport was calm and quiet.At the baggage claim carousel, a screen with a bright red banner declared “Emergency alert” and noted that all flights were being halted. Customers were encouraged to check with their flight representatives.The plane that was coming in to land at Reagan Airport before it crashed was approaching a shorter runway than the airport’s notoriously busy main runway.
"You can always see these planes lined up to land. I always look at them when I’m driving home because it’s just a really interesting, kind of an elegant sight,” Ari Schulman toldSchulman said he saw what looked like a plane roughly 120 to 150 feet in the air preparing to land but then looked back moments later and saw that “it looked very, very wrong.”
The flight, operated by PSA Airlines, was en route from Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport. The plane is a CRJ-700, American Airlines said.The Black Hawk helicopter isn't equipped with an alert system like a commercial airliner would be — but it does have superior visibility that could have helped a crew see an oncoming threat, said Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.
Air Florida Flight 90 struck the 14th Street Bridge and went into the Potomac River on Jan. 13, 1982. Seventy-four of the 79 passengers and crew members died. Four people in vehicles on the bridge were killed. The Air Florida crash “was a major catalyst for significant advances in the safety of winter weather operations,” the FAARep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., said he was on a flight from Houston that landed at Reagan Airport just minutes before the crash.
Vice President JD Vance asked for prayers for those aboard the plane that crashed in Virginia this evening.
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