PSA Airlines aircraft was approaching 6 km from the White House; There is no information about passengers
A plane operated by PSA Airlines, which is part of the American Airlines Group, collided with a helicopter on the air on Wednesday (29.jan.2025) and crashed into the Potomac River in Washington DC, the capital of the United States.
There is still no information about people aboard the plane and the helicopter.
The FAO (Federal Aviation Administration, an American body equivalent to ANAC in Brazil) on its X profile that the collision involved a Bombardier CRJ7000 model plane and a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter, around 11 pm Brasilia time).
PSA Airlines flight 5342 had taken off from Wichita in Kansas. According to FAA, at the time of the collision, the plane was approaching the 33 track of Ronald Reagan National Airport, which is about 6 km from the White House.
