Three U.S. Army soldiers were onboard a BlackHawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
The Black Hawk helicopter which collided with a passenger plane above Washington DC was training for a hypothetical doomsday scenario at the time, according to US officials.
US defence secretary says army copter was "on a routine, annual re-training of night flights on a standard corridor for a continuity of government mission".
There were eight minutes to prevent one of the worst air disasters in US history that saw a US Army helicopter collide with an American Airlines plane carrying 64 people and splitting it in half. An ...