An American Airlines passenger jet with 64 onboard was coming in to land at Ronald Reagan Washington national airport when it collided with a military helicopter<\/p>\n
A regional passenger jet with 64 onboard has collided with a military helicopter before crashing into the Potomac river<\/strong> while approaching Ronald Reagan Washington national airport on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n The American Airlines flight, operated by PSA Airlines as <\/strong>American Eagle Flight 5342, had flown from Wichita, Kansas<\/strong>, carrying 60 passengers and four crew members when it collided with a Black Hawk helicopter that was on a training flight.<\/p>\n Dozens of firefighters were \u201cengaged in dive operations\u201d on the Potomac river,<\/strong> Edward Kelly, the general president of the international association of firefighters, said, with bodies reportedly pulled from the water and no survivors being immediately found. US senator Ted Cruz said \u201cwe know there are fatalities\u201d but did not provide further details.<\/p>\n The helicopter was believed to be carrying three soldiers, with no senior army officials onboar<\/strong>d. The Black Hawk helicopter involved in the crash was based out of Fort Belvoir, Virginia.<\/p>\n All takeoffs and landings have been halted<\/strong> until Thursday morning<\/strong> at the airport while the rescue operation is underway.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump said he had been briefed on the \u201cterrible accident\u201d<\/strong> and praising the \u201cincredible work\u201d done by emergency services. He later said on social media that the crash \u201cshould have been prevented\u201d.<\/p>\n American Airlines has set up a phone line<\/a> for relatives<\/strong> who believe they may have lost ones one on board.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An American Airlines passenger jet with 64 onboard was coming in to land at Ronald Reagan Washington national airport when it collided with a military helicopter Washington DC plane crash \u2013 latest updates Full report: American Airlines jet crashes after midair collision A regional passenger jet with 64 onboard has collided with a military helicopter … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}