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On Wednesday evening, a PSA Airlines (a subsidiary of American Airlines) airliner with sixty passengers and four crew members on board was hit by a military helicopter over Washington. It crashed into the Potomac River and there are no survivors expected.
What happened over Washington on Wednesday evening? An American Airlines airliner with 64 people on board – 60 passengers and 4 crew members – crashed into the Potomac River that flows through Washington after a collision with a military helicopter over the federal capital, near Ronald Reagan National Airport, authorities announced. “Flight 5342, from Wichita, Kansas (ICT) to Washington DC (DCA), was involved in an air accident” near Ronald Reagan National Airport, American Airlines wrote in a statement.
In the aftermath, Donald Trump responded with a statement: “God bless them,” the president responded, saying he had been “fully informed of the terrible accident.” Previously, his spokesperson Karoline Leavitt had told Fox News that “tragically, it appears that a military helicopter collided with a regional airliner.” A witness quoted by CNN, Ari Schulman, said he “thought he saw the collision,” with a “very bright yellow light,” while driving on a highway that runs between the capital Washington and Virginia, separated by the Potomac River. Deadly plane crash: what we know about the crash in South Korea
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An alert given by air traffic controllers
According to the first elements of the American aviation regulator (FAA), a plane from the manufacturer Bombardier operated by the company PSA, a subsidiary of American Airlines, “collided at medium altitude” with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while approaching to land at Reagan airport, which is located on the edge of Washington and the Potomac River that waters it. A Bombardier of this type can carry up to 78 people.
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