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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Preliminary data from the deadliest U.S. aviation accident in nearly 25 years showed conflicting readings about the altitudes of an airliner and Army helicopter when they collided near Reagan National Airport in Washington, killing everyone aboard both aircraft, investigators said Saturday. Investigators also said that about a second before impact, the […]
Investigations into what caused the mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter are ongoing and the radio communications will be crucial in determining the cause. Moments before the collision, ATC or air traffic control can be heard on their radio directing multiple planes taking off and landing at Ronald Reagan […]
Part of the wreckage is seen as rescue boats search the waters of the Potomac River after a plane on approach to Reagan National Airport crashed into the river outside Washington, DC, January 30, 2025. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP The flight data and cockpit voice recorders have been recovered from the passenger jet that crashed […]
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A midair collision between an Army helicopter and a jetliner killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft, officials said Thursday, as they scrutinized the actions of the military pilot in the country’s deadliest aviation disaster in almost a quarter century. At least 28 bodies were pulled from the icy waters […]
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, TARA COPP, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and LEA SKENE ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A midair collision between an Army helicopter and a jetliner killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft, officials said Thursday, as they scrutinized the actions of the military pilot in the country’s deadliest aviation disaster in almost a […]
In early April 2020, when COVID-19 was beginning to seem inescapable, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and psychologist Daniel Kahneman, a scholar of the way we make judgements, spoke to a New Yorker podcast. “This is an exponential event,” he said. “That is, we see things doubling every two days, every three days, every four days […]
Follow the AP’s live coverage of a midair collision between a passenger plane and a military helicopter in Washington D.C. An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while coming in for a landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington . . .
Firefighters carry the body of a passenger from the wreckage of a plane that crashed after overrunning the runway at Muan Airport, South Korea, Dec. 29, 2024. (Photo: REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji) Data from one of the black boxes of the Jeju Air plane that crashed last week has been recovered, while the second will be sent […]
Dozens of children and hundreds of young women are among thousands of migrants who have died in desperate attempts to enter the US, according to official figures that lay bare the scale of the southern border crisis. Analysis by Newsweek of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data shows that the rate at which women […]
Ajo, Arizona — The search began with a prayer in the early morning hours, as the sun emerged from the mountains that adorn this picturesque, yet often deadly, landscape near the U.S.-Mexico border. It was the third search that a grassroots group of volunteers known as the Armadillos had embarked on this summer with the […]
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