Complaints about the FAA’s hiring policies resurfaced after the American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Washington, DC.

A commercial plane with 60 passengers and four crew members on board collided with a military helicopter with a crew of three near Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night.

As many as 60 passengers and four crew members were aboard American Eagle Flight 5342, and the Black Hawk helicopter was ...

Black boxes house critical flight data regarding aircraft and are designed to be resilient, with their retrieval typically a high priority after incidents.

NTSB officials say recorders from both aircraft have been recovered in good condition as the investigation into the crash ...

Officials have yet to say exactly why the crash happened; however, newly sworn-in U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has repeatedly said the collision was “absolutely” preventable. Related ...

An American Airlines plane collided with a military helicopter crashing into the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport ...

A collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people ...

Army helicopter. There were 64 people on American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas to DCA — including 60 passengers ...

American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk collided in Washington, D.C. Authorities believe all 67 on board both aircraft died.

The crash around 9 p.m. threw one of the world's most tightly controlled airspaces into chaos, 3 miles south of the White ...

Users resurfaced the year-old post after U.S. President Donald Trump baselessly blamed DEI for a deadly midair collision in January 2025.