An FAA statement said a PSA Airlines regional jet collided midair with a Sikorsky helicopter. Here’s what to know about the airline.
Bob Schrock and his wife, Lori Schrock, perished on Wednesday night – two of the 60 passengers aboard American Airlines flight 5342 as the jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night. No one survived.
A beloved Disney on Ice performer and a mother of two young children were among the 64 passengers killed on board the American Airlines flight 5432 when it collided with a Black Hawk helicopter near Washington,
Several members' of the U.S. Figure Skating community were onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter over Washington, D.C., the governing body said in a statement.
An American Airlines regional jet collided with a military helicopter as it was approaching Reagan National Airport.
The married couple, won the world championships in pairs figure skating in 1994, had reportedly lived in the US since at least 1998.
The victims of a crash between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter included teen figure skaters returning from a national meet with their mothers and coaches, an Ohio college student coming from her grandfather’s funeral,
There were 64 people on American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas to DCA — including 60 passengers and four crew members. The Blackhawk Army helicopter had three soldiers on board. None of the 67 people on either aircraft are believed to have survived, officials say.
San Jose-native Anthony Ponomarenko had already left the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Kansas, where the ill-fated American Airlines flight had departed from. On Thursday morning, he woke up to a frantic call from his parents.
More than 30 bodies have been recovered, two sources told NBC News, and a frantic search and rescue mission to find crash victims in the icy Potomac river remains underway.
The hunting buddies worked as tradesmen in Maryland. Three of their group survived because they drove their bird dogs home.