The section of the Potomac River affected by the Jan. 29 midair collision of an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Washington’s Ronald Reagan Washington ...
Crews remove more wreckage of the American Airlines jet from the Potomac River as they continue recovery ... the events that led to the collision. Full investigations typically take a year or ...
The flight then crashed into the Potomac River. According to the FAA, Flight 5342 from Witchita Kansas collided midair while approaching the runway at Reagan Washington National Airport.