What happened to passengers at American Airlines Flight 5342?
On the evening of January 29, American Airline Flight 5342 Traveling from Witchita, Kan., To the Washington collided DC with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, Federal aviation administration confirmed on xformerly known as Twitter. The aircraft carrying 60 passengers and four crew members and the helicopterthat had Three people on board, crashed into the Potomac river.
The passenger beam, a Canadian manufactured Bombardier CRJ-700 series Twin-Engine Jet, is run by American Airlines’ subsidiaries, PSA Airlines.
What was first a rescue mission has become a recovery operation, with 28 Bodies that are recovered from the river As of publicationDistrict of Columbia Fire Chief John Donnelly confirmed.
“At this point, we don’t believe there were any survivors,” said the official at a press conference on January 30. “We will work to find all bodies and reunite them with their loved ones.”
When officials put together the pieces around the terrible incident, transport secretary Sean Duffy Shared that the helicopter was in a “standard flight pattern” during the collision and was aware of the plane nearby.
“Last night the helicopter was in a standard pattern,” he explained at the press conference. “If you live in the DC area you see helicopters upside down in the river, this flight pattern is often seen when you live in DC”
