Officials at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport say all takeoffs and landings have been halted.
Lights from emergency vehicles flash Wednesday night at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., following a midair collision involving an American Airline flight and a helicopter.An American Airlines passenger jet and a helicopter collided Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport outside the nation's capital, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
"A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet collided in midair with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while on approach to Runway 33 at Reagan Washington National Airport around 9 p.m. local time," the preliminary statement read. It added that Flight 5342 had taken off from Wichita, Kan. Surveillance video from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., shows a small aircraft, presumably the helicopter, colliding with the passenger jet at a low altitude followed by a bright explosion. Radar tracking sites show the passenger jet appears to have fallen into the frigid Potomac River."Small aircraft down in Potomac River vicinity Reagan National Airport. Fireboats on scene," the DC Fire and EMS DepartmentA Bombardier CRJ-700 has a maximum capacity of 70 people.
The last major commercial airplane accident involving a U.S. passenger plane was in 2009 when a Colgan Air flight crashed near Buffalo killing a total of 50 people .
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