Three soldiers on board helicopter in tragic Washington plane crash as Potomac River search continues
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThree soldiers were reportedly on board a US Army helicopter which collided with an American Airlines flight. Sixty passengers and four crew members were on-board flight 5342 as it crashed while landing at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night (January 30).
Official figures on casualties and fatalities are yet to be released, but at least 19 bodies have been pulled from the Potomac River, where the aircraft came down.
It had been involved in a crash with a military Blackhawk helicopter at around 9pm local time. Three soldiers were aboard the Sikorsky H-60 helicopter helicopter involved, a Defense Department official told CBS News.
Air traffic control warned the helicopter about the flight moments before the collision. In audio from the air traffic control tower around the time of the crash, a controller was heard asking the helicopter: “PAT25 do you have the CRJ in sight?" CRJ refers to the regional American Airlines flight.
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