The Black Hawk helicopter which collided with a passenger plane above Washington DC was training for a hypothetical evacuation of US leaders at the time, according to US officials. Three soldiers ...

The Army's specialty is helicopters ... gun, a .50 caliber GAU-19/A machine gun, and the General Electric M134 7.62mm 6-barreled minigun can be mounted onto the pintle mounts, giving the Black ...

3. The Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near Washington, D.C., last week may have been flying higher than the maximum altitude for its training mission, authorities say.

Black Hawk helicopters often fly these routes as a pair, doubling the number of eyes scanning the sky for a safe passage. But that night, there was only one. Its two pilots worked together to ...

On Wednesday, a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger plane, killing 67 people Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award winning journalist who has spent 20 years as ...

THIS IS WHERE THEY MAINTAIN MORE THAN 40 HELICOPTERS TO MAKE SURE THEY’RE READY TO FLY. THIS IS A BLACKHAWK HELICOPTER AND WE GOT TO LOOK AT IT UP CLOSE. AND AN ARMY AVIATION EXPERT TALKED TO US ...

The Army has identified the third soldier aboard the Black Hawk helicopter involved in Wednesday’s deadly midair collision near Reagan National Airport after it had been initially withheld.

The Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines passenger plane in Washington was flying too high, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The flight ...

A military helicopter was flying above the maximum altitude for its route when it collided with a passenger plane near Washington, D.C., last week, authorities said. The National Transportation Safety ...

All 67 people on board the plane and the helicopter were killed in the crash. Hundreds of families are in mourning after an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk ...