6 days ago · Live updates:Scores feared dead after plane crash near Washington, DC Air traffic control audio: 'I just saw a fireball' At 8:47 p.m., an air traffic controller is heard hailing the helicopter ...

5 days ago · Within 30 seconds of the recording reviewed by NPR, the military helicopter (referred to as PAT 25 on the radio) is told by Reagan's controllers that the plane is incoming, and it is informed ...

6 days ago · As American Airlines Flight 5342 approached a runway at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night, an air traffic controller reached out to an Army helicopter that was approaching the plane’s ...

6 days ago · Audio of air traffic control in DC plane crash. What we know: Less than 30 seconds before the crash, an air traffic controller asked the helicopter if it had the arriving plane in sight. The controller made another radio call to the helicopter moments later: "PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ." Seconds after that, the two aircraft collided. "Yep, we ...

3 days ago · The NTSB says when the Jan. 29 collision between a passenger plane and helicopter occurred, the air traffic control tower had five persons on duty.

6 days ago · Air Traffic Control (ATC) audio from Wednesday’s collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet reveals the moments before and after controllers witnessed the ...

5 days ago · — Audio of air traffic control captured the moments when a Black Hawk helicopter collided with a passenger jet near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night. The American Airlines passenger plane was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members; three soldiers were on board the Army helicopter.

6 days ago · A passenger aircraft carrying 64 people collided midair with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, DC, as it approached the runway, according to the ...

6 days ago · Air traffic control communications: Less than 30 seconds before the crash, air traffic control made contact with the helicopter, which said it had the aircraft “in sight.” It appears air traffic control had no communication with the jet.

3 days ago · Air traffic control staffing was "not normal" at the time of a mid-air collision between a military helicopter and passenger plane in Washington, DC that killed 67 people, Transportation Secretary ...