The Delta Air Lines crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday is the latest in a series of accidents this year that has spread anxiety among air travelers and prompted sharp criticism of American aviation regulators. Here are the three major U.S. accidents so far in 2025: American Airlines jet and Army helicopter collide…
More of the wreckage of an American Airlines regional plane was recovered Tuesday from last week’s deadly midair collision over Washington, D.C., that sent the airliner and an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashing into the Potomac River. One of the pieces recovered Tuesday showed a portion of the American Eagle logo from the flight that…
Officials say it will take several days to remove all of the wreckage in the Potomac River from the midair collision that happened last week. Additional remains were recovered Monday and are in the process of being identified, officials say. CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave has the latest. Source link
Salvage operations are underway Monday to remove an American Airlines plane’s fuselage from the Potomac River following its midair collision with an Army helicopter last week. Search crews hope that will allow them to recover the remains of the final victims, which they’re still unable to access. CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave…
Salvage crews began lifting the wreckage of American Airlines Flight 5342 from the Potomac River in Washington on Monday morning, the start of an operation that was expected to take three days. Just after 10 a.m. Eastern, the first piece of wreckage appeared. A crane perched on a barge in the middle of the river…
Families of victims of the deadliest U.S. air disaster in a nearly in 25 years visited the crash site Sunday just outside Washington, D.C. Dozens of people walked along the banks of the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport, close to where an American Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided Wednesday, killing…
The deadliest week in U.S. aviation since Nov. 2001 – CBS News Watch CBS News On Friday night, a small medical jet carrying a young girl who’d just completed treatment at Shriners Hospital in Philadelphia was going home to Mexico when something went terribly wrong right after takeoff. The crash of the Learjet 55, which…
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Recovery crews and divers searched the Potomac River for remains and cleared wreckage Saturday from the midair collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter that killed 67 people. A Coast Guard cutter outfitted with a crane waited by the wreckage as occasional recovery team members slipped into the water amid…
All 3 black boxes recovered after midair collision near Reagan National Airport – CBS News Watch CBS News Recovery efforts are resuming Saturday at the site of the nation’s worst air disaster in more than a decade. Investigators now have all three of the black boxes from the Army helicopter and passenger jet that collided…
Father of Black Hawk pilot killed in crash recalls learning of tragedy on news – CBS News Watch CBS News Among the D.C. crash victims was Staff Sergeant Ryan O’Hara, the crew chief on the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines passenger plane. Mark Strassmann spoke to his grieving father. Be the…