Washington (DCA) Ronald Reagan Airport has paralyzed operations after crashing a passenger plane with a helicopter on the Potomac River. According to the Aviation Authority (FAA), a plane operated by PSA Airlines, Bombardier Model, CRJ, 700 that had left Wichita (Kansas) on a regional flight has crashed with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter (Black Hawk) of the army when approaching Ronald Reagan airport shortly before 9:00 p.m., local time. It was the 5342 flight of American Eagle, the Regional Flight Company of the American Airlines Group. The number of passengers and victims is unknown. The plane carried 60 passengers and 4 crew, according to the airline.
The helicopter has approached the plane until he crashed with him. The devices have exploded in the air, illuminating the sky of the capital, as seen in a video that circulates through social networks, taken with the Kennedy Center webcam. They show that it was in full airport approach maneuver.
“Confirmed small plane fallen on the Potomac River near the Reagan National Airport. Fire ships on stage, ”the Fire Service had tweeted before knowing the tragedy scale. There is a strong deployment of emergency vehicles next to the river and through the city center the sirens of fire and police trucks sound. The icy water temperature would only survive for 15 or 20 minutes before hypothermia. He points out that emergency teams have rescued four people, but there is no official confirmation.
“All take -offs and landings in DCA have been interrupted. Emergency personnel are responding to an air incident in the airfield. The terminal remains open. There will be update, ”has tweeted the Ronald Reagan airport account. The airport is already in the state of Virginia, on the shore of the Potomac River. The flights to this airport are being diverted to other airports in the capital.
“We are aware of the information that American Eagle flight 5342, operated by PSA, with service from Wichita, Kansas (ICT) to the Reagan National Airport of Washington (DCA) has been involved in an incident. We will provide information as available ”,
In Washington, Ronald Reagan’s National Airport is still remembered, heading to Fort Lauderdale (Florida) airport that had to stop in Tampa (Florida). The Boeing 737 of 12 years and 9 months crashed on the 14th street bridge over the Potomac River, died 74 people on board and surviving only 5 people.
The plane transported 74 passengers and 5 cabin crew at the time of the accident, when the takeoff failed. 70 passengers and 4 crew members died, in addition to four passers -by on land. The accident occurred near the White House, the Pentagon and the monument to Jefferson. On the day of the accident, the Ronald Reagan airport had been closed by a strong snowstorm, then opened its operations at noon at limited conditions, when the snowfall began to cease. The weather conditions and the poor defrosting of the plane were pointed out
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