NTSB: Black Hawk was flying too high when it collided with passenger plane over Washington DC, killing 67

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) connected Tuesday said the Army Black Hawk chopper that crashed into a PSA Airlines CRJ700 airliner connected Jan. 29, sidesplitting 67, was flying excessively high.

Flight postulation information obtained by the NTSB confirms the Black Hawk was astatine 300 feet connected the aerial postulation power show astatine the clip of the midair crash, which is 100 feet higher than the 200-foot ceiling for helicopters flying successful the National Capital Region.

Since the information was rounded to the nearest 100 feet, officials request further accusation to verify information points from the Black Hawk. 

That volition necessitate recovering the craft from the water, which is slated to hap aboriginal this week.

Investigators searched done Black Hawk wreckage for the combined FDR and CVR. (NTSB)

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Preliminary accusation showed determination was a alteration successful the aircraft’s pitch, indicating the level pulled up anterior to the crash.

NTSB investigators proceed to transcribe the cockpit dependable recorders for some aircraft. Synchronization enactment for the Black Hawk formation information recorder and cockpit dependable recorder is ongoing.

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Wreckage from the rider level is inactive being recovered from the Potomac River, with new finds including the close wing, halfway fuselage, portion of the near helping and near fuselage, important portions of the guardant compartment and cockpit, vertical and horizontal stabilizers, process cone, rudder, elevators, TCAS machine and speedy entree recorder.

The recovered wreckage volition beryllium moved to a unafraid determination for a wreckage layout examination.

A constabulary vessel patrols the h2o and guards the transgression country aft an American Airlines level collided successful midair with a subject chopper and crashed into the Potomac River successful Washington, D.C. United States connected January 30, 2025. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"The craft systems radical continues to reappraisal attraction paperwork for the CRJ700 and the chopper airworthiness radical continues to reappraisal attraction records for the Black Hawk," according to the NTSB.

As of Tuesday, the bodies of each 67 identified victims were pulled from the river.

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Fox News Digital's Andrea Margolis and Rick Eggleston contributed to this story.