Flight data posted online appears to show another Army helicopter flying higher than the maximum altitude allowed around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., before last week’s fatal collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger plane.

The US Army Black Hawk helicopter involved in the Washington DC crash with an American Airlines passenger aeroplane was flying too high and outside of its approved flight path, according to a report

Questions about how a US Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight carrying 64 people in clear skies near Washington DC’s Reagan National Airport are intensifying after the White House confirmed there are no survivors.

A jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided on Wednesday night with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, with all on board believed to have been killed in the crash. Three people in the helicopter are also believed dead.

An Army Black Hawk helicopter was flying too high when it crashed into an American Airlines jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, DC last week, the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Tuesday.

Data retrieved by the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed the Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into a passenger plane near D.C. was flying too high.