Reagan airport crash 1/29/25

[kansasdad]

TV news is showing a mid air collision with a commercial flight originating in Wichita on final approach colliding with an Army Blackhawk at Reagan Airport (Washington DC).

60 passengers plus crew. It seems like I should tangentially know more than one person on the flight.

4 persons have been pulled out of the Potomac, but the way it was phrased doesn’t mean they are alive. All traffic in/out suspended until 5 am tomorrow.

 

[kansasdad]

 

[ismith]

News report is clear as mud, I wouldn’t consider an airliner carrying 60 pax a “small” aircraft.

 

[brymoore]

We had a mini panic in my house. My son is deployed to DC with a Blackhawk aviation battalion. First rumor was it was his group but then 5 minutes later got confirmation that it was not his group.

 

[ismith]

We had a mini panic in my house. My son is deployed to DC with a Blackhawk aviation battalion. First rumor was it was his group but then 5 minutes later got confirmation that it was not his group.

Did you hear from your son?

 

[brymoore]

Did you hear from your son?

Yes. It wasn’t his group. The battalion sent out a message to families too.

 

[Maverick1]

Man, this is terrible.

 

[Bigjay73]

Reminiscent of the crash in 82, what tragic thing.

 

[ismith]

Reminiscent of the crash in 82, what tragic thing.

Which one?

 

[8andcounting]

Awful . Prayers to all involved

 

[kansasdad]

Local news posting 18 bodies have been recovered.

 

[Bigjay73]

Which one?

I'm only aware of 1 at what is now Reagan airport in January of 82.

 

[ismith]

I'm only aware of 1 at what is now Reagan airport in January of 82.

Ok

 

[hank4elk]

Bummer.
I would never fly into or out of Reagan. Used Dulles.
Terrible place for another airport in 1st place. Too much air traffic in area. Andrews & Pentagon. SS, Coast Guard.
Ironic it was named for the fire the overworked FFA guy.

 

[LousyResident]

Press release is now saying no survivors expected. Crazy.

 

[kansasdad]

This from AOL: members of USA skating on board. (National Championships just completed in Wichita)

'Several Members' of U.S. Figure Skating Team Onboard American Airlines Plane That Crashed Over Washington, D.C.

Russian world figure skating champions, Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were also reportedly on the flight which collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River on Jan. 29

www.aol.com

 

[Bigjay73]

Wonder when the conspiracy theories will begin.

 

[LopeHunter]

I also avoided this airport though meant landing outside of where I needed to go for meetings so cost me time. Runway 33 was being used by this airplane and that is not the norm. Helo activity under landing airplanes is normal for DC. Crazy but normal.

DC is a carnival of lights and moving objects after sunset. Likely the helo was visually tracking the airplane lined up on Runway 1 and never visually detected the plane they impacted since 33 is not the busy runway.

I expect the Control Tower will have new guidelines for identifying what runways are in use as ask a helo if they see the descending aircraft.

 

[Treeshark]

I cancelled a leg of a business trip that included a flight into DC last night, out today (not the one that crashed). Dodged a mess there.

Prayers for the families of the victims.

 

[Brauee20]

Likely the helo was visually tracking the airplane lined up on Runway 1 and never visually detected the plane they impacted since 33 is not the busy runway.

I expect the Control Tower will have new guidelines for identifying what runways are in use as ask a helo if they see the descending aircraft.

Tower: "PAT25 traffic just south of (unclear) bridge is a CRJ at 1,200ft turning for Runway 33"

PAT25: PAT25 has the Traffic in sight, request visual separation

Tower: Visual separation approved.

The runway switch was relayed to the UH-60, as well as instructions to pass behind the RJ.