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Report: 2 Planes Aborted Landings at DCA Due to Helicopters in Week Prior to Deadly Crash

by Sandra Rhodes
January 31, 2025 at 11:55 am
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Report: 2 Planes Aborted Landings at DCA Due to Helicopters in Week Prior to Deadly Crash

Part of the wreckage is seen as rescue boats search the waters of the Potomac River after a plane on approach to Reagan National Airport crashed into the river outside Washington, DC, on January 30, 2025. A regional jet from Kansas crashed into Washington's Potomac River after colliding mid-air with a military helicopter near Reagan National Airport, officials said January 29, prompting a major emergency response and grounding all flights. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

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There appeared to be some issues between airplanes landing at Reagan National Airport and military helicopters a week leading to Wednesday’s deadly crash.

According to a report The Washington Post, a plane aborted its landing in order to miss hitting a military helicopter on Tuesday night, just a day before the deadly crash on Wednesday that killed all those in the airplane and helicopter.

On Jan. 23, a plane arriving from Charlotte aborted its landing because a helicopter was in its way.

A passenger on that flight explained what happened.

“They had to circle back around because there was a helicopter in the flight path,” RIchard Hart said. “At the time I found it odd. … Now I find it disturbingly tragic.”

On Wednesday night an inbound commercial flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a military helicopter over the Potomac River. 

Sixty-seven people — 64 passenger American Airlines Flight 5342 and three soldiers on the Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk — are presumed dead.

Safety concerns are now being raised given the close proximity of Runway 33 and the helicopters’ location.

An air traffic controller dedicated to helicopters has been placed by the Federal Aviation Administration in the National Airport tower to handle the hazards, the report said.

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IJR, Contributor Writer She was a Story Editor for Indpendent Journal Review since November 2022 and has written for IJR since February 2024. She has been in the newspaper business in various capacities since 1998.

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