On January 29, 2025, a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner operating as American Airlines Flight 5342 and a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter operating as Priority Air Transport 25 collid
N709PS, the Bombardier CRJ701ER involved in the collision, pictured in 2022
00-26860, the Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk involved in the collision, pictured in 2018 without the External Stores Support System it had equipped at the time of the accident
FAA chart showing the helicopter routes near Reagan National. Routes 1 and 4 can be seen over the upper and lower Potomac River respectively.
Wreckage of the PSA plane the morning after the crash
Colgan Air Flight 3407
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Colgan Air Flight 3407 was a scheduled passenger flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Buffalo, New York, on February 12, 2009. Approaching Buffalo, the Bombardier Q400 entered an aerodynamic stall from
2025 Potomac River mid-air collision
…crash, 64 passengers and crew on the airliner and the three crew of the helicopter. It was the first major US commercial passenger flight crash since Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009, and the deadliest US air disaster since the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in 2001. This was also the third hull loss and first fatal…
Scattered aircraft wreckage
A Bombardier Q400 of Colgan Air, similar to the aircraft involved
The wreckage
U.S. president Barack Obama shaking hands with Beverly Eckert six days before the accident