US: Military Helicopter Crashes into Airlines with 60 Passengers
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Rescue Operations Find Four Survivors After Plane crashes into River
By Raisina Correspondent
New Delhi, January 30: In a bizarre mishap, a military helicopter crashed into a passenger airline at Reagan National Airport in the US. Four survivors have been found while rescue operations are underway after the ill-fated airline plunged into Potomac River.
Video footage showed that the passenger airline which had sixty passengers and four crew aboard collided with helicopter mid-air. The reports said that the pilot of the military helicopter had ejected and landed safely with parachute.
The Associated Press in a news alert quoted Homeland security secretary, saying that Coast Guard is “deploying every available” resource to respond to plane crash.
US President Donald Trump has termed the mishap “not good’, while wondering why proper instructions were not passed on to the pilot of the military helicopter to stay away from the path of the airline. Trump sharply commented that it was a clear night while the helicopter kept going in line of the airline.
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The US President stated that he has been briefed on “terrible accident” at DC’s Reagan National Airport. “Video shows a massive emergency response after a reported crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia. All take offs and landings at the airport have been halted,” said ABC News in an update.
OSINT Technical in a post stated that at “8:48 PM (local time) this evening, American Eagle Flight 5342 collided with a US Army UH-60 Blackhawk flying as PAT25 while on short final to runway 33 at DCA. Both aircraft went down in the Potomac River”.
The mid-air collision left the people and experts aghast. “ATC audio of American 5342 as Reagan tower clears them to land, advises PAT25 helicopter to watch for traffic, and then alarm hits tower as they watch the collision unfold and both aircraft fall into the river,” said Tyler Anderson, a US pilot on the mishap in a post on X.
This is the first commercial airline crash in the United States since a regional flight crashed in Buffalo, New York in 2009, said CBS News. “This was an unparalleled period of aviation safety that appears to have come to an end tonight,” Van Cleave was quoted by the television channel having said.
Video showed the moment a pilot ejected from an F-35 fighter jet, parachuting to safety before the aircraft crashed and burst into flames. “The pilot reported a malfunction and declared an in-flight emergency,” the US Air Force said in a statement.
Natasha Bertrand, a journalist with CNN, said in a post on X that “PSA Airlines Flight AA5343, operating for American Airlines from Kansas to Virginia, crashed into a U.S. Army UH-60 ‘Black Hawk’ helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport, the main airport serving Washington D.C”.
The CNN said that the “US Army Blackhawk that collided with a passenger plane on Wednesday was on a training flight at the time of the incident”. The broadcaster quoted Joint Task Force-National Capitol Region media chief Heather Chairez.
“We can confirm that the aircraft involved in tonight’s incident was an Army UH-60 helicopter from Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion, out of Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir during a training flight,” Chairez told CNN.
We are working with local officials and will provide additional information once it becomes available, he added.
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