American Airlines flight 5342, with 60 passengers and four crew members onboard, collided with a Black Hawk helicopter as it was seconds away from landing at Reagan National Airport.
Unfortunately, it would fall into the Potomac River.
Grainy nighttime security camera footage captured the flash as the two aircraft collided mid-air.
We are now seeing a much better view of that moment as the Kennedy Center Cam on Earth Cam caught the tragic collision of the American Airlines Flight and the Black Hawk helicopter.
A massive search and rescue was immediately conducted, but rescuers were only pulling dead bodies out of the water as it was suspected that everybody on board was deceased.
Pray for everyone onboard and their families as they try to navigate through this tragedy.
American Airlines Flight Was Split In Half
The commercial passenger plane that collided with a Black Hawk chopper over the icy Potomac River was split in half.
NBC 4 Washington’s Mark Segraves said the American Airlines Flight plane split in half, and large parts of it are “in about 7 feet of water” in the frigid Potomac.
There have been zero survivors.
