President Trump announced on Thursday that the White House will release the names of the victims of the deadly accident that happened on Wednesday night in coordination with American Airlines.
An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, with no survivors expected.
The midair collision between an American Airlines flight and the military helicopter involved 67 people and is not expected to have any survivors.
Latest news and live updates after an American Airline jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River.
Trump appeared to resume the role of blamer-in-chief in the aftermath of Thursday's fatal plane crash, surveying the tragedy as just another American citizen asking questions, rather than as the leader of a nation dealing with its first commercial air disaster in 15 years.
A grainy snippet of video footage taken in the dark of night, seemingly by an airport CCTV camera, appears to show the fatal mid-air collision of an American Airlines passenger plane and a military Black Hawk helicopter.
An American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport and crashed into the Potomac River, according to officials.
An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair with an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday.
The first press conference of Trump’s second term had a lot in common with the freewheeling, falsehood-packed sessions of his first.
A regional jet carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Reagan National Airport grounded all flights.
A recovery operation and investigation is underway in Washington, D.C., after an American Airlines flight from Kansas and Black Hawk helicopter crashed midair and into the Potomac River. Authorities said all 64 aboard the flight are feared dead.