The deadly midair crash over D.C. in charts and maps
Investigators are searching for answers after a Wednesday evening midair collision over Washington, D.C., left 67 people dead.
The crash took place at around 8:48 p.m. near Reagan Washington National Airport, just south of the city, when a small passenger plane making its final approach to the airport collided with an Army helicopter.
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The graphics below illustrate what we know so far about the crash. They will be updated as more information is made available.
The collision involved American Eagle Flight 5342, a small plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members, and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter with three people on board..
The helicopter was performing an “annual proficiency training flight” at the time of the crash, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday.
The U.S. Army tracks its aviation-branch mishaps and according to its data there were more serious mishaps — those involving deaths, disability or multi-million dollars of damage — last year than there were in the previous decade.
Data from the aircraft tracking site Flightradar 24 shows the plane descending at the time of the crash, with its altitude dropping from 4,000 feet to around 400 feet. The helicopter’s last broadcast altitude — captured around four minutes before the crash — shows it was flying at close to 400 feet.
There were no survivors, President Trump confirmed Thursday, making this the first fatal commercial aircraft in the U.S. since 2009 and the second aviation accident with 10 or more victims so far this decade.
