The NTSB said Army Black Hawk crew may not have heard a message to "pass behind" the D.C.-bound passenger plane before the Jan. 29 midair crash over the Potomac River.

The radio altimeter on board the Black Hawk at the time of the deadly midair collision read 278 feet, Homendy said. That altimeter uses a radio beam to show the helicopter’s altitude above ...

The Black Hawk pilots who collided with an American Airlines plane last month may not have heard vital information given by air traffic control to fly behind the passenger jet seconds before the ...

The NTSB is turning the focus of its investigation into the Jan. 29 collision on what the Black Hawk pilots could see and hear. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip. Featured. Featured.

Origins and Development The Sikorsky S-70 Black Hawk is an American medium transport utility helicopter developed in the ...

An Army Black Hawk helicopter almost collided with a plane not once but twice last week. The airport suffered two near misses with the Black Hawk. One near miss brought the helicopter within 200 ...

Investigators are intensifying their search into what caused the collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk helicopter, with recovery crews still working to pull ...

Army Black Hawk helicopter causes 2 terrifying near-misses with airliners at Reagan airport after taking the ‘scenic route’ By . Anthony Blair. Published May 4, 2025, 10:22 a.m. ET.

The MV-75, a tiltrotor aircraft, will replace the Black Hawk, boosting the U.S. Army's rapid deployment and modernization efforts against strategic threats.

Meanwhile, the most common version of the UH-60 Black Hawk, the UH-60M, has a cruise speed of 172 mph. Sikorsky doesn’t mention a top speed for Defiant X, but does say it will fly “twice as ...

Black Hawk pilots may not have heard a critical directive from air traffic control to fly behind the American Airlines plane in the seconds before it collided with the jet, ...