Doug Lane had to make one of the most difficult decisions of his life last January. An Army Black Hawk helicopter on a training mission and an American Airlines flight landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport collided over the Potomac River, less than a mile from the runway. Lane’s wife, Christine, and 16-year-old son,…
The four Joint Base-Lewis McChord soldiers killed in a Sept. 17 helicopter crash have been identified. They were aboard a U.S. Army MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter for routine flight training when the chopper crashed. The cause of the crash is still under investigation. They have been identified as U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Three Andrew…
Investigators probing the January midair collision of a passenger plane and an Army helicopter over Washington that killed 67 people found the chopper was flying higher than it should have been and the altitude readings were inaccurate. The details came out of the first day of National Transportation Safety Board hearings in Washington, where investigators…
Three days of investigative hearings on the deadly midair collision over Washington in January begin Wednesday and aim to reveal new insights into what caused the crash between a passenger plane and an Army helicopter that killed 67 people. The National Transportation Safety Board will question witnesses and investigators about how the actions of the…