A Boeing 737 crashed into a bridge over the river on Jan. 13, 1982, just after taking off from Washington National Airport in a snowstorm.
Several federal and state investigations have been launched after an American Airlines flight and a military helicopter collided near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and fell into the Potomac River,
The news of an American Airlines jet and Black Hawk helicopter colliding on Wednesday recalls a similar tragedy that happened 43 years ago.
The aircraft experienced difficulty climbing and stalled, striking the 14th Street Bridge and crashing into the ice-covered Potomac.
Before Wednesday's crash between a passenger jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter, the last fatal crash involving a U.S. commercial airline occurred in 2009 in New York.
The recent crash and rescue on the icy river between DC and Virginia sparks memories of Air Florida's 1982 disaster.
An American Airlines flight colliding with an Army helicopter in Washington, D.C. was a sheer moment of heartbreak for people across the nation and in Tampa Bay.
The airspace around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has long been problematic due to heavy military and commercial flight activity in the nation’s capital, according to industry insiders.
The captain flying the plane with 64 aboard was schooled in Florida. A Blackhawk helicopter collided with Flight 5342 near Ronald Reagan airport.
I don’t know of any other accident that has had this amount of impact on aviation but also in other industries,” one expert said of the 1982 crash.
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