American Airlines CEO Robert Isom said the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the deadly midair collision between an American passenger jet and a military helicopter, will be the lone authority on the cause and details of the crash.
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DC plane crash investigators recover American Airlines black boxes after midair collision
Black Hawk black box and two from American Airlines plane recovered
Victims are being named after an American Airlines flight crashed with a Black Hawk by Reagan National Airport, leaving no survivors.
National Transportation Safety Board recovers black boxes from plane crash at Reagan National Airport
American Airlines confirmed to PEOPLE on Friday, Jan. 31, that flight 5342 will cease to exist. The airline is retiring the number following the tragic collision in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan.
No chute or slides appeared to be deployed from the American Airlines plane, according to J. Todd Inman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board. “It was a very quick, rapid impact,” he said.
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Officials from the NTSB reiterated local authorities’ belief that there were no survivors in the deadly Wednesday, Jan. 29 midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington,
The National Transportation Safety Board did not specify how many air traffic controllers were working at the time of the collision.
American Airlines CEO Robert Isom said the airline has activated its care team to assist in recovery efforts after one of its jets collided with a helicopter.
One of the air traffic controllers on duty was allowed to go home early, leaving just one controller in charge, according to reports.
After a 60-passenger American Airlines flight and U.S. Army helicopter collided mid-air Jan. 29, a man shared the final text messages he received from his wife aboard the aircraft. “I left his house and got in my car and I called my wife first and I was crying, because I knew he did it," Ron Shipp said about OJ Simpson.
A Learjet 55 business jet en route to Springfield-Branson National Airport in Missouri and carrying six people crashed near Philadelphia on Friday.
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No evidence has emerged that rules seeking to diversify the FAA played any role in the collision Wednesday between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter that killed
The U.S. Army identifies the two soldiers as 28-year-old Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara and 39-year-old Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves
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