The military helicopter UH-60 'Black Hawk' and the American Airlines regional jet Bombardier CRJ700 that collided over Washington are aircraft commonly used worldwide. The plane was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members,
Three victims of the deadly Washington, D.C., plane crash have Ohio ties, and the airline involved has a connection to Ohio. Here's the latest.
For many, the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, like the one involved in the Wednesday collision over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., is familiar for one reason: the 2001 movie "Black Hawk Down ," based on the 1993 shooting down of U.S. Black Hawk helicopters during the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia.
Emergency teams will continue efforts to retrieve the bodies of those who died when a passenger jet and helicopter collided.
Investigators have retrieved the voice and data recorders from the passenger plane following Wednesday's crash which killed 67 people.
Here are 10 key things to know about the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the incident, its capabilities, and the mission it was conducting at the time of the crash.
American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, was attempting to land when the plane and a Black Hawk helicopter collided.
Rescue craft are in the Potomac River below the site of the collision with D.C. fire chief John Donnelly saying "we don't know" if there are any survivors.
A new technology for autonomously operating aircraft dubbed “MATRIX” is drawing scrutiny across social media after a commercial airliner collided with a military helicopter in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
All are feared dead in a crash involving a Black Hawk helicopter built by Connecticut's Sikorsky and an American Airlines plane in Washington, D.C.
A massive search operation is underway after a passenger aircraft carrying 64 people collided midair with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, DC, according to aviation and defense officials.
None are believed to have survived the Wednesday night collision, which caused both aircraft to plunge into the frigid Potomac River.