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The National Transportation Safety Board has begun an investigation into the deadly mid-air collision between an American Eagle regional jet and a military helicopter that left all 67 people onboard the aircrafts dead.
Just under 24 hours after the crash occurred, the jet’s two black boxes were recovered as an extensive search for evidence and details into what led up to the deadly collision get underway.
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The collision occurred Wednesday evening in one of the world’s most tightly controlled airspaces, just over 3 miles south of the White House and the U.S. Capitol. A massive search-and-rescue effort launched overnight turned into a recovery operation by mid-Thursday morning.
In the video’s next second: the unexpected. A flickering dot of light appears from the left of the frame, at first so faint that it might be mistaken for a distant star.
But it is moving. Quickly, too. The dot appears to be the Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter, on a training exercise with a crew of three soldiers aboard.
The tiny smudge of light from the helicopter speeds ever-closer to the AA flight, but then flickers off and disappears for a tiny fraction of a second. Has it sensed danger and veered off the collision course?
The next moment brings the fateful answer: Unfortunately, no.
The helicopter light-dot reappears, still racing toward the larger bright white of the passenger plane.
Then, an explosion — a spreading fireball of yellow and orange that suddenly flares in the darkness like an unnatural sun before starting to fade.
Where, just milliseconds earlier, there had been only two moving lights in the sky — the plane’s and the helicopter’s — now there are many: debris scattering and tumbling through the darkness.
In the foreground, the other untouched passenger plane still trundles on, seemingly unaware as what appears to be the largest chunk of wreckage is falling fast and uncontrolled behind it.
The aircraft plummeted into the Potomac River, where the fuselage was found upside down in three sections in waist-deep water, officials said.
Who was on the plane?
The collision was the deadliest U.S. air crash in nearly 24 years. At least 28 bodies have been pulled from the icy waters.
Among the passengers were members of the Skating Club of Boston who were returning from the 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita. They included teenage figure skaters Jinna Han and Spencer Lane, the teens’ mothers and two highly regarded Russian-born coaches, Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who won a 1994 world championship in pairs skating.
Other Russians were also on the jet, according to the Kremlin.
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