Readings have been compared from the black box recovered from American Eagle flight 5342 and the air traffic control tower about the Black Hawk helicopter

The American Airlines flight involved in the deadly collision with a Black Hawk helicopter over Washington, DC, seemed to increase its pitch just before the impact, preliminary data from a voice data recorder recovered from the plane shows.

The Army identified the third soldier on the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the midair crash over the Potomac River Wednesday night as Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach.

The female pilot killed in the Army helicopter collision with a passenger jet in Washington DC has been named as a former aide to President Joe Biden.