(30 Jan 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alexandria, Virginia – 29 January 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Tara Copp, The Associated Press:
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"We’re at Dangerfield Marina looking across the river at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, where a massive search and rescue effort is underway, when an Army Black Hawk helicopter carrying a crew of three and an American Airlines passenger jet carrying roughly 60 passengers that both collided about 9:00 this evening. We’ve been watching as helicopters hover overhead and searchlights look in the water to try and pull out any passengers from either aircraft. And seeing everybody wait and hope for the best."
2. Wide of first responders crew
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arlington, Virginia – 29 January 2025
3. Various of Ronald Reagan National Airport
4. Wide of rescue boats near Potamic River
STORYLINE:
A jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River.
There were multiple fatalities, according to a person familiar with the matter, but the precise number of victims was unclear as rescue crews hunted for any survivors.
Three soldiers were onboard the helicopter, an Army official said. There was no immediate word on the cause of the collision, but all takeoffs and landings from the airport were halted while helicopters from law enforcement agencies across the region flew over the scene.
Inflatable rescue boats were launched into the Potomac River from a point along the George Washington Parkway, just north of the airport, and first responders set up light towers from the shore to illuminate the area near the collision site.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the midair crash occurred around 9 p.m. EST when a regional jet that had departed from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a military helicopter on a training flight while on approach to an airport runway.
It occurred in some of the most tightly controlled and monitored airspace in the world, just over three miles south of the White House and the Capitol.
AP video shot by: Mike Pesoli & Nathan Ellgren
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