Tag: air crash

• Thursday, January 30th 2025 - 10:47 UTC

  Airliner, military helicopter plunge into Potomac River after mid-air collision

  

  An American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet on approach at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA/KDCA) collided mid-air with a US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Both aircraft ended up in the Potomac River.

• Monday, September 2nd 2019 - 06:50 UTC

  Relatives of victims of 2009 Rio-Paris crash include Airbus in their claim

  

  Relatives of victims of the 2009 Rio-Paris air crash have provided evidence they say supports their claim that Airbus knew of problems with an onboard instrument five years earlier, it emerged on Sunday.

• Sunday, September 4th 2011 - 00:36 UTC

  Chile's Juan Fernadez plane crash, four bodies found

  

  After the first four bodies were salvaged from the Chilean aircraft and new parts of the fuselage were found, near Juan Fernández islands, Mayor Leopoldo González deemed it impossible that there are any survivors to the accident. “The plane is 26 metres below the sea,” he explaine.