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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: No Survivors Expected After Passenger Jet Collided with Army Helicopter Near Washington D.C. [Watch (HLS stream): No Survivors Expected After Passenger Jet Collided with Army Helicopter Near Washington D.C.](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Yc9CLlQY.m3u8) (3:04)  _Published 2025-01-30. Dozens are believed to be dead after a regional American Airlines flight, operated by PSA Airlines, collided with an Army helicopter in midair on Wednesday night when it was about to land at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport._ --- Jan 30, 2025 6:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Trump Speaks About the Fatal Passenger Jet and Army Helicopter Crash](/video/xjYqTpq0/) ### Trump Speaks About the Fatal Passenger Jet and Army Helicopter Crash [Malaysia Military Helicopters Collide Mid-Air, Killing All 10 Crew on Board](/video/mhsC7Psy/) ### Malaysia Military Helicopters Collide Mid-Air, Killing All 10 Crew on Board [Two Army Black Hawk Helicopters Crash in Kentucky Killing 9](/video/O1TvUEKr/) ### Two Army Black Hawk Helicopters Crash in Kentucky Killing 9 --- ## Transcript Here's what I can share at this early stage. American American Eagle Flight 5342, operated by PSA Airlines traveling from Wichita, Kansas, to Reagan National Airport, was involved in an accident just before 9 p.m. local time on final approach into Reagan National. It collided with a military aircraft on an otherwise normal approach. At this time, we don't know why the military aircraft came into the path of the PSA aircraft. Flight 5342, a CRJ 700, was under the command of four crew members. It carried 60 passengers, as you know, for a total of 64 people on board. Last night at 848, the control tower sounded an alert which alerts responders to respond to a report of an aircraft crash on or near the airport that sets off an immediate response from the airport Authority fire Department from the District of Columbia and Metropolitan Harbor patrol fire boats and other fire boats on the river in order to support that type of operation. Very quickly, this call escalated. It became a you know, the responders realized that they had a plane crash. Um, and immediately escalated to a response that ultimately included about 300 people last night. Uh, these responders found extremely frigid conditions. Despite all those efforts, we are now at a point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation. Um, at this point, we don't believe there are any survivors from this accident. And we have recovered 27 people from the plane and one from the helicopter. Uh, the district office of the medical examiner has a lead on reuniting these bodies and these people with their loved ones. And we will continue to work to find all the bodies and collect them and reunite them with their loved ones. We should also acknowledge that the Virginia medical examiner and the Army. Army Medical Examiner are involved in this operation, and a very important part of getting the people identified. Everything was standard in the lead up to the crash. Obviously, there was something happened here. You'll get more information and more details as this investigation moves forward. We'll learn what happened. But again, those who live in the D.C. area, we see military helicopters fly up and down the river. It's a standard path that they fly. They're used to aircraft landing at DCA. And there's a procedure in place because this happens every day. Something went wrong here. I look forward to the time and point when we can give you that information. So we are going to wait for all the information to come in from, from this vantage point. But, uh, to, to back up what the president said, what I've seen so far do I think this was preventable? 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