The passenger plane collided in the air with the Sikorsky H-60 military helicopter during the runway at Reagan National Airport near Washington,- reported CNN on Thursday.
“The Bombardier CRJ700 aircraft operated 5342 American Airlines. He flew out of the Growing, Kansas, earlier on Wednesday. The Black Hawk of the US Army, which collided with a passenger plane on Wednesday, was in a training flight during the incident, “CNN said the head of the joint operative-tactical group in the region of the National Capital Heather Chirez.
The media with reference to Washington’s police report that from the Pottomak River, where a passenger liner fell, which collided with a military helicopter, 18 bodies of the dead have already been pulled out.
According to the US media, there were 64 passengers and crew members on board, on board the Black Hawk helicopter – three military people, among them there were no representatives of the senior command staff.