The military helicopter that collided with a passenger plane and crashed in the airspace near Washington, D.C., was reportedly conducting a training flight.
On the 29th (local time), Heather Charez, a spokesperson for the Joint Armed Forces Congressional Battalion, said in an interview with CBS that the accident helicopter belonged to the 12th Air Wing. It is said that there were three people on board the accident helicopter. According to CBS, there were no senior Department of Defense officials or military generals on the helicopter involved in the accident, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is not treating this incident as a criminal case.
Around 8:53 p.m. that day, a small passenger plane from PSA Airlines, a regional airline under American Airlines, collided in mid-air with a military helicopter, the Black Hawk (H-60), while landing at Ronald Reagan Airport. Both aircraft reportedly crashed into the nearby Potomac River.