BREAKING DCA CRASH: Initial reports indicate that it was American Airlines Flight 5342 inbound to DCA from Wichita, Kansas. The plane collided with a D.C. Police Helicopter as it was approaching.

Pray for the those involved. Massive rescue mission underway.

"DC Police Helicopter"?

Looking for confirmation if this helicopter was in DC Police control.

Holy shit, the helo involved in the crash provides transport for senior Army leadership and key government officials!

It was a US Military Blackhawk helicopter that had a mid-air collision with a civilian commercial airliner.

Seeing contradictory reports about the helicopter.

So take those details with a grain of salt, pending confirmations.

Statement from the FAA on D.C. Airspace Incident:

Only 1 of these 12 past flights was at 33k altitude.

Looks like no Senior Officials onboard

https://x.com/breaking911/status/1884808405455347874?s=46&t=F6MKWT9WdUtkXxZCqm0KPw

This was either an accident, or the plane was the target, and the helicopter was the weapon.

We need to know who was on the plane. And hopefully it wasn't anybody about to testify in important matters, etc.

Plane was on predictable track, and assigned to a runway rarely used (per ABC news report tonight). Helicopter flew irregular path, then rose to meet altitude of plane AND changed direction to intercept in last few seconds of flight.

Maximum allowed height for the helicopter was 200 feet, which is where it was up until 37 seconds before impact. Surging from 200 feet to 350 just seconds before impact is a deliberate maneuver and takes considerable power to climb.

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ABC news is showing flight tracker and talking a lot about path of the plane, but is not showing path of the helicopter.

Saying things like "presumably the helicopter was under 200 feet as it was supposed to be", while the flight tracker clearly shows it went above 200 feet.

We'll see, but this is messy so far.

A helicopter normally tasked with transporting senior military leaders, but will a crew too incompetent to follow directions and altitude restrictions?

Being reported that helicopter was on a training flight.

BREAKING — The Joint Task Force National Capitol Region says the BlackHawk was taking part in a training flight.

Officially it was a training flight.
official vs actual aren't always the same thing...
we'll see.