The National Transportation Safety Board gave an update on its investigation into the deadly midair collision between an ...

Determining the Black Hawk’s precise altitude at the time of the collision is seen as a crucial step in understanding how two aircraft collided under clear skies over some of the country’s ...

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On the night of Jan. 29, an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet over the Potomac River in Washington, killing all 67 people on both aircraft. To analyze ...

Black Hawk pilots may not have heard a critical directive from air traffic control to fly behind the American Airlines plane in the seconds before it collided with the jet, and may have had “bad ...

All 67 people on board the plane and the helicopter were killed in the crash. There's no indication the U.S. Army Black Hawk crew could tell there was an impending collision before its devastating ...

Key factors being examined include the flight paths, altitude discrepancies and potential lapses in communication between the aircraft and air traffic control. The Black Hawk helicopter crew was ...