The collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and the Army Black Hawk helicopter occurred on January 29 under clear skies over some of the country’s busiest and most tightly controlled ...

Shortly before the collision, a controller got an alert saying the plane and Black Hawk were converging and asked the helicopter if it had the jet in sight. The military pilot said yes and asked ...

Helicopters will be permanently banned from ... law enforcement and emergency medical services. The Army Black Hawk involved in the January crash belonged to the 12th Aviation Battalion based ...

In a normal landing, a crew would land the Black Hawk’s two main wheels and one tail wheel evenly on the platform. But there was no room for the tail wheel on the train. As the helicopter’s ...

The Black Hawk is a family of utility helicopters made by Sikorsky, a company owned by Lockheed Martin. One of the mainstays of the U.S. Army, it is extensively used by the U.S. military as a ...

FILE - Rescue and salvage crews pull up a part of a Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet, at a wreckage site in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan ...