On January 29, 2025, the world was stunned by the tragic news of the mid-air collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 ...

One of three soldiers aboard an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was involved in the deadly midair collision outside Washington, D.C., was identified as Capt. Rebecca Lobach.

The National Transportation Safety Board says altimeter in the Black Hawk helicopter may have malfunctioned before the DCA midair collision with an American Airlines jet. All 67 people aboard died.

The Bombardier CRJ700 airplane was gearing up to land when a Black Hawk helicopter flew directly into its path of travel around 9 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

The crew on the Black Hawk “were on a routine, annual re-training of night flights. 113th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment Three soldiers — two men and a woman — were killed in the helicptor.

What two Black Hawk pilots saw — or did not see — before the Jan. 29 crash along the Potomac River is unknown but critical in understanding what led to the helicopter’s deadly collision with ...

The radio altimeter on board the Black Hawk at the time of the deadly midair collision read 278 feet, Homendy said. That altimeter uses a radio beam to show the helicopter’s altitude above ...