Airplane Crash Today: Live Updates and the Latest Details

 DC Police said it received calls at 8:53 p.m. about “an aircraft crash above the Potomac River.” The US Army Blackhawk helicopter was on a training flight at the time of the.  Emergency responders were alerted of an aircraft crash at 8:48 p.m., according to D.C. Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly. First units arrived at the scene at 8:58 p.m. and.  What to know about the Washington, D.C., plane crash. Search efforts continue in the Potomac River after a plane with 60 passengers and 4 crew on board collided in midair.  An airplane went down in the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport. An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan.  There was an alert for a plane crash at 8:48 p.m., and the first responders on the scene found that an aircraft was in the Potomac River, Chief John Donnelly said a news.

 An American Airlines flight and a military helicopter collided and crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport Wednesday evening, D.C. Fire and EMS confirmed.  The plane, a Bombardier CRJ700 with about 65 seats, was operating as Flight 5342 for American Airlines when it collided with a military helicopter at around 9 p.m. and crash.  There was an alert for a plane crash at 8:48 p.m., and the first responders on the scene found that an aircraft was in the Potomac River, Chief John Donnelly said a news.  Less than 30 seconds before the crash, an air traffic controller asks the helicopter if it has the arriving plane in sight: “PAT25, do you have the CRJ in sight?” The controller makes.