Passenger jet collides with helicopter at Reagan Airport near Washington

An American Airlines rider level carrying 64 radical has crashed into the Potomac River adjacent Washington, DC aft colliding midair with a subject chopper connected a grooming workout precocious connected Wednesday, prompting a large exigency effect and the grounding of each flights.

The rider level was astir to land astatine Reagan National Airport aft flying from Kansas.

American Airlines, whose subsidiary operated the flight, said “there were 60 passengers and 4 unit members connected committee the aircraft”.

A US Army authoritative said the chopper progressive was a Black Hawk exemplary carrying 3 soldiers. They had been connected a “training flight”, a abstracted subject spokesperson said successful a statement.

Washington constabulary said “there is nary confirmed accusation connected casualties astatine this time.”

The Federal Aviation Administration ordered the grounding of each planes astatine Reagan National, and Washington’s constabulary said connected X that “multiple agencies” were responding to the clang tract successful the Potomac.

The past large fatal US clang was successful 2009, erstwhile Continental Flight 3407 from New Jersey to Buffalo, New York crashed and killed each 49 radical connected board.