{"id":15644,"date":"2025-01-30T13:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=15644"},"modified":"2025-01-30T13:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T13:57:13","slug":"everything-we-know-so-far-after-american-airlines-flight-carrying-60-passengers-collides-with-army-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=15644","title":{"rendered":"Everything we know so far after American Airlines flight carrying 60 passengers collides with army helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"summary_summary__q_VAA\">The plane was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members at the time of the tragic ordeal<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><strong>67 people are feared to have died after a mid-air collision between a passenger plane and military helicopter occured last night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The tragic ordeal happened in\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/washington\">Washington D.C<\/a>\u00a0at around 9pm local time, and saw an\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/american-airlines\">American Airlines<\/a>\u00a0aircraft and a\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/us-news\">US<\/a>\u00a0Army Black Hawk helicopter crash into each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">There were 64 passengers and crew members on the commercial craft, and three soldiers on the helicopter. It&#8217;s been reported that so far, 19 bodies have been recovered from the Potomac River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The collision marks the US&#8217;s first first major commercial airline crash since 2009,\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/reagan-national-airport-closed-due-aircraft-emergency\/story?id=118246693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> ABC News.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PLANE CRASH: Kennedy Center Cam catches American Airlines plane crashing into helicopter on video\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R-iNGwbCAzs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>What have officials said about the Washington plane crash?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the matter and have said that preliminary information suggests that the two aircrafts collided while both approaching Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">DC Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly confirmed that around 300 emergency personnel were on hand at the scene last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Donnelly has also revealed that\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/news\/us-news\/officials-share-update-plane-crash-american-airlines-618111-20250130\">divers are facing some difficulties in recovering the bodies from the river<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">&#8220;The water that we\u2019re operating in is about 8ft deep,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There is wind, there is pieces of ice out there. So it\u2019s just dangerous and hard to work in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/donald-trump\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0has also spoken out on the fatal incident and described it as &#8216;not good&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">He penned on TruthSocial: &#8220;This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. 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It was insane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Another witness, Ari Schulman,\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/live-blog\/live-updates-plane-crashes-potomac-river-collision-helicopter-reagan-n-rcna189942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a>\u00a0NBC News: &#8220;It looked to me like a giant Roman candle, sparks shooting from the head of the plane down to the tail. I saw that for about two seconds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image_articleImage__eyzAn\">\n<div class=\"article-image_imageWrapper__ANtPE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt185d527959527a1e\/679b4b7f330051119e5f24b7\/GettyImages-2196069175.jpg\" sizes=\"100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=640&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt185d527959527a1e\/679b4b7f330051119e5f24b7\/GettyImages-2196069175.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=750&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt185d527959527a1e\/679b4b7f330051119e5f24b7\/GettyImages-2196069175.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=828&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt185d527959527a1e\/679b4b7f330051119e5f24b7\/GettyImages-2196069175.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=1080&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt185d527959527a1e\/679b4b7f330051119e5f24b7\/GettyImages-2196069175.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=1200&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt185d527959527a1e\/679b4b7f330051119e5f24b7\/GettyImages-2196069175.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=1920&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt185d527959527a1e\/679b4b7f330051119e5f24b7\/GettyImages-2196069175.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=2048&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt185d527959527a1e\/679b4b7f330051119e5f24b7\/GettyImages-2196069175.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt185d527959527a1e\/679b4b7f330051119e5f24b7\/GettyImages-2196069175.jpg 3840w\" alt=\"Around 300 emergency personnel were at the scene last night (Kyle Mazza\/Anadolu via Getty Images)\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" data-nimg=\"fill\" \/><\/div>\n<p><cite class=\"image-credit_imageCredit__YMlqS\">Around 300 emergency personnel were at the scene last night (Kyle Mazza\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n<h2>Who was on board the aircrafts?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">While three soldiers were on the helicopter, Army officials have since confirmed that no senior military leaders were onboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Meanwhile, the commercial aircraft was carrying &#8216;several members of our skating\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/community\">community<\/a>&#8216;, US Figure Skating said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Two of these people have been confirmed to be former world champion Russian figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, official spokesperson for the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Peskov added,\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/30\/plane-crashes-near-washington-dc-after-mid-air-collision-with-military-helicopter-follow-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as per<\/a>\u00a0The Guardian: &#8220;There were other fellow citizens of ours there too. Bad news from Washington today.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plane was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members at the time of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":653,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}