At a news conference Thursday, President Donald Trump — without evidence — cast blame on the helicopter pilots and baselessly alleged that diversity initiatives had undermined air safety.
An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, with no survivors expected amid the extremely cold and windy conditions.
Rep. Jennifer McClellan says President Donald Trump should be focusing on crash recover efforts 'and not blaming Black people and women'
Watch highlights from the deadly American Airlines and Black Hawk plane crash including news conferences, Trump briefing
An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, with no survivors. Sixty-four people were on board the plane, which departed from Wichita, Kansas. Three soldiers were on the helicopter.
Last year, senators from Virginia and Maryland sounded the alarm over congestion in the skies above Washington.
Kiah Duggins, 30, graduated from East High and Wichita State University before going on to earn her law degree from Harvard Law School.
Sixty-seven people are presumed dead after a passenger plane on approach to Reagan National Airport near Washington, DC, collided Wednesday night with a US Army helicopter midair, sending both aircraft into the Potomac River below,
An American Airlines regional jet carrying 64 people collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter late Wednesday near Reagan National Airport in Virginia just across from the District of Columbia,
If President Donald Trump was trying to comfort Wichitans and others rocked by Flight 5342 D.C. plane disaster, he missed the mark.
Almost 30 bodies have been pulled from the Potomac River after Wednesday night’s collision between a passenger plane and a military helicopter near Washington, DC. That’s according to Washington officials,