Disaster American Airlines Flight Collides With Blackhawk Helicopter Over DC - Several videos shared online showed footage of the collision and the aftermath of the crash.

An American Airlines passenger plane crashed into the Potomac River after colliding midair with a black hawk helicopter over Ronald Reagan International Airport in Washington, D.C., the Federal Aviation Administration announced Wednesday (January 29) via CNN.

Several videos shared online showed footage of the collision and the aftermath of the crash.

BREAKING: American Airlines Flight 5342 has collided with a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The military aircraft, identified as PAT25, is believed to be a Priority Air Transport mission, typically designated for VIP transport operations.

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[Fapcop]

I ended up sperging over this because I never have anything valuble to contribute to the farms.

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https://x.com/avgeekjake/status/1884823071611363833 (archive.ph)

Not to schizopost but… Anyone thinks it’s weird how much information we have available so fast after the crash?

An out of focus video or two would be fine, but suddenly we have screenshots off ATC screens and shit?

Seems kinda… Weird.

Interested to hear who was aboard.

 

[Death of an Ego]

This seems like a simple and tragic case of pilot error. It does happen. I don't know how many of you all have ever been in the cockpit of a blackhawk, but suffice to say, you have excellent forward visibility, but you can't see shit above you unless you lean forwards and look up. If you look at the flight paths, and listen to the tower audio, it's pretty clear there was no fuckery going on, and as a few have said here, at low level at night with a literal sea of lights, piloting anything other than a drone is dicey. If I had to guess, the helo was on a routine instrument training flight, and got mixed up somehow, and when the plane came into view, that was just it. No time, just boom. I would pray for the souls of the deceased if I was a religious type. As it is I can only offer condolences to the family members and friends.

 

[Omori Boy]

Not to schizopost but… Anyone thinks it’s weird how much information we have available so fast after the crash?

An out of focus video or two would be fine, but suddenly we have screenshots off ATC screens and shit?

Seems kinda… Weird.

Interested to hear who was aboard.

Not really. It happened in the literal capitol and most of this stuff is open source.

 

[Mikoyan]

But some military aircraft may still not be equipped or have waivers to turn it off.

I believe for the vast vast majority it's 'not equipped'.

Hell the cargo planes didn't even have TCAS until a C-141 had a particularly bad day...

 

[clipartfan92]

Not really. It happened in the literal capitol and most of this stuff is open source.

Video of the ATC scopes is not open source and I can't recall anything like that leaking this close to the time of a crash.

 

[MadStan]

 

[barrow greeter]

The press conference they are going with the line that they are in "rescue mode" (4 hours later in freezing water) and are refusing to divulge any numbers of casualties or survivors other than just restating the amount of people who were on board both aircraft in the first place -

- BUT, but Kansas senator guy they had as part of the press conference let slip an aside "probably over 60" killed when he was trying to just say thoughts and prayers, so you can take that as possibly something if he is privy to information they aren't officially stating yet.

 

[Omori Boy]

I believe for the vast vast majority it's 'not equipped'.

Hell the cargo planes didn't even have TCAS until a C-141 had a particularly bad day...

I'd say 30% of the time a military aircraft flies over me or near my area, it doesn't show up on either ADSB-Exchange or FlightRadar24. Even ones that are reoccurring, like a Coast Guard Dauphin has their transponder on 80% of the time but occasionally flies by without it on.

Video of the ATC scopes is not open source and I can't recall anything like that leaking this close to the time of a crash.

We also live in the era of leaking Secret information because your favorite video game doesn't have something modeled accurately.

 

[Mikoyan]

Congress and other powerful people looooOOOOooooove DCA. It's a short Metro run for all of them from their offices to the airport. So despite it being hemmed in and too crowded, it stays.

The Silver Line going out to Dulles takes part of the reason away, but that's still a much longer trip.

As proof of this, see the presser going on right now. The Kansas guys from congress went on about how they lobbied AA hard for this specific flight.

 

[Gene Sinclair]

The press conference they are going with the line that they are in "rescue and recovery mode" (4 hours later in freezing water) and are refusing to divulge any numbers of casualties or survivors other than the amount of people who were on board in the first place -

- BUT, but Kansas senator guy they had as part of the press conference let slip an aside "probably over 60" killed when he was trying to just say thoughts and prayers, so you can take that as possibly something if he is privy to information they aren't officially stating yet.

MWAA radio is open, you can listen for yourself. They have been reporting body counts all night. Last I heard it was confirmed 19.

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/1605

 

[Temu Glock Switch]

Tragically he was covered in 2nd and 3rd degree burns. And had breathed in the burning gasses. What the hospital at the time called pneumonia was caused by his lungs being badly burned, fluid filled and very quickly badly infected.

This is why I'm even more astonished that those flight attendants from Jeju Air 2216 survived in spite of the massive explosion that seperated the tail from the main fuselage.

This seems like a simple and tragic case of pilot error. It does happen. I don't know how many of you all have ever been in the cockpit of a blackhawk, but suffice to say, you have excellent forward visibility, but you can't see shit above you unless you lean forwards and look up.

Same sorta shit that led to a P-39 barrel rolling into a B-17 at that airshow in Texas like a year ago. Or when drivers change lanes on the highway without turning their head to check their blind spot, for that matter.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

Okay, wow. That's a lot more structurally intact than I anticipated given the steep bank angle eyewitnesses reported. There may be some lucky souls just like when Ethiopian 961 ditched in 1996. I'll be heartbroken if hypothermia killed people in the water. Crazy story, but in the 50s two big airliners collided over NYC, and the only survivor was a boy that fell on to a snowbank. Tragically, he contracted pneumonia during the hours rescuers were searching for him and passed away the next day.

Similar to JAL 123. The four survivors said they heard lots of other survivors but they crashed on a mountainside and Japan refused the US military's offer for help and it took them until the NEXT DAY to finally get to the site.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

Didn't a few Blackhawks collide a year or two ago? Right after two Apaches collided, if memory serves.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Not to schizopost but… Anyone thinks it’s weird how much information we have available so fast after the crash?

It was a domestic, non-terror incident with everyone who was on those flights fully logged, they have all the information available and no reason to hide it.

Evasiveness is always the big question, like how a man managed to bring up two dozen firearms and thousands of rounds through one of the most heavily-monitored streets (cameras everywhere) in the country, into a hotel, and up an elevator and we still have no footage of it today, especially in comparison to a few years earlier when the Tsarnaev brothers planted bombs in the crowd, and authorities started combing through footage, with the FBI themselves releasing a definitive picture of the suspects within three days.

 

[Eventide]

Has anyone posted this video of the crash yet: https://x.com/JackWallace888/status/1884831775144153534

Edit: also, CNN & Fox said no survivors have been found so far

 

[Rekieta’s Broken Penis]

Kiwifarms Movie Night when??)

 

[sharpshield]

Blancolirio update on the crash:

https://youtu.be/ouDAnO8eMf8

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Has anyone posted this video of the crash yet: https://x.com/JackWallace888/status/1884831775144153534

The Blackhawk had it's nav lights on. That's why you can see it.

 

[Death of an Ego]

The press conference they are going with the line that they are in "rescue mode" (4 hours later in freezing water) and are refusing to divulge any numbers of casualties or survivors other than just restating the amount of people who were on board both aircraft in the first place -

- BUT, but Kansas senator guy they had as part of the press conference let slip an aside "probably over 60" killed when he was trying to just say thoughts and prayers, so you can take that as possibly something if he is privy to information they aren't officially stating yet.

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Will you fucks at least bring up a weather report before posting stupid shit? It's almost 40 degrees in DC right now, the water isn't freezing, and everyone fucking died in that low level crash either from the initial impact or when the remains of the plane and helo hit the damn water. Even though a plane on landing approach is going slow for an airframe, it's still going above 100 mph in the case of that type. At that speed, water may as well be a brick wall due to surface tension. I knew there would be no survivors.

 

[LifeAlert]

Has anyone posted this video of the crash yet: https://x.com/JackWallace888/status/1884831775144153534

Edit: also, CNN & Fox said no survivors have been found so far