Air traffic control was filmed at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, following the collision of the 5342 American Eagle Flight and the Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the Botomac River, with the Capitol dome in the background, as we saw from Virginia, USA, January 30, 2025.
Evelyn Hakstein Reuters
How a Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American flying plane in a deadly crash over the Botomac River on Wednesday night, which is still unknown, but the questions appear, including the height of the military helicopter.
Investigators are still withdrawing the evidence from Potomac and looking at everything starting from newly withdrawn airline data and the cockpit registered information. Every 64 people US Airlines The flight 5342 and the three were killed on the helicopter in the collision of a fire ball near the National Airport in Washington, DC, which represents the most destroyed American airline since 2001.
The Psa Airlines Bombardier CRJ-700 flying about 300 feet on the final approach at the Reagan National runway 33 before 9 pm EST on Wednesday when it collided with the Black Hawk helicopter.
Defense Minister Beit Higseth said the helicopter was on an annual training trip.
According to the rules of the federal aviation administration, the helicopters, which cross regularly through Washington and around the military bases, Pentagon and other sites, must fly in the area near the airport with a maximum of 200 feet.
It is a kind of unique environment, “said Todd Enman, a member of the National Transport Safety Board in the capital. If you live in the capital, you will see many helicopters drop to this field. So there is a good system well. “
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration has released new restrictions on flying for helicopters throughout Washington, DC, the region and the National Airport of Reagan, with some exceptions for medical evacuation and law enforcement operations.
The airspace between some bridges, or region 1, is currently inactive. In the nearby area 4, only helicopters are allowed to fly south of the Woodro Wilson Bridge.
NTSB leads to a collision that ended in a fiery ball. The agency said it is still collecting information and that it is very early to extract conclusions.
“It isn’t that we have no information. We have information,” said Jennifer Humandi, NTSB president. “We have large quantities of information. We need to check the information. We need to spend our time to make sure it is accurate.”
NTSB has a flight data and a cockpit audio recorder from the passenger plane. The agency said that the funds were transferred to NTSB laboratories for evaluation.
President Donald Trump wrote on Friday Social truth The helicopter “was very high, but it was much higher than the maximum of 200 feet. This is not very complicated to understand, is it ???”
Higseth made a similar statement on the White House on Thursday.
“Last night, a mistake was made,” he said. “There was a kind of rise that we immediately started investigating at the level of the Ministry of Defense and Army.”
