Episode 2830
2025 Potomac River mid-air collision
Fri, 2025-Jan-31 13:17 UTC
Length - 1:42
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With 880,515 views on Thursday, 30 January 2025 our article of the day is 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision.
On January 29, 2025, American Eagle Flight 5342, a Bombardier CRJ700 series airliner on a scheduled domestic passenger flight, collided mid-air with a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter while on final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near Washington, D. C. Both aircraft crashed into the Potomac River, killing all 67 people on board the flights. Flight 5342 was operated by PSA Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Airlines Group, and was en route from Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas, while the helicopter was on a training flight out of Davison Army Airfield in Fairfax County, Virginia.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 13:17 UTC on Friday, 31 January 2025.
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