On Wednesday, several Virginia residents were among the 67 people who died on the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter.
More details about the 67 people who died in the helicopter and plane crash outside of Washington D.C. are being shared. Several victims were Virginia residents from Loudon and Fairfax counties,
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Investigators plan to push forward on Friday with efforts to retrieve the two aircraft involved in a crash in Washington that killed 67 people and raised questions about air safety in the U.S. capital.
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Sixty-seven passengers and crew died in Wednesday night's crash between a regional American Airlines jet and a Blackhawk helicopter from Fort Belvoir near Reagan National Airport.
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American Airlines Flight 5342 hit an Army helicopter near Washington D.C.'s Reagan National Wednesday night, sending the two aircraft into the Potomac River and killing all 67 aboard in the deadliest U.
The US president says the army Black Hawk involved in Wednesday's collision was above the 200ft altitude limit for helicopters.
The people in the helicopter should have seen where they were going,” Trump told reporters Thursday at the White House. “What was the helicopter doing in that track? Very sad. But visually, somebody should have been able to see and taken that helicopter out of play and the should have been at a different height.
CBS News analyzed data and found the Black Hawk helicopter was flying above the permitted altitude. This data, from FlightRadar24, showed the helicopter’s last estimated altitude was at 375 to about 400 feet at the time of the crash.