Just over 24 hours before Wednesday’s fatal midair collision, a different regional jet executed a go-around maneuver when descending to land at Reagan Airport due to a military helicopter in the ...

As American Airlines Flight 5342 descended calmly over the Potomac River, a US army helicopter approached ... and first responders set up light towers from the shore to illuminate the area ...

Late Wednesday night, President Donald Trump questioned why a military helicopter would have found itself in a descending plane ... why didn’t the helicopter go up or down, or turn?” ...

The military helicopter, callsign PAT1, was advised of the descending airplane. Flight tracking sites show the plane flew roughly 1,000 feet (300 meters) above the helicopter, a normally ...