{"id":371733,"date":"2026-02-19T01:05:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-airlines-washington-crash-ntsb-report\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:05:49","slug":"helicopter-route-placement-deemed-as-probable-cause-in-american-airlines-crash-by-final-ntsb-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=371733","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter Route Placement Deemed As Probable Cause In American Airlines Crash By Final NTSB Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a year ago, on January 29, 2025, an American Airlines flight operated by a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 under the American Eagle regional banner <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-eagle-crj700-crashes-potomac-river-helicopter-collision\/\" >collided with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter<\/a> while on approach to<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"264018\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/washington-national-airport\/\"  >Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport<\/a><\/span> (DCA). The flight had originated in Wichita, Kansas, and its collision with the Sikorsky UH-60 resulted in the deaths of all 67 people on the two aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The accident happened just over a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,636,15206,1976,1074,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-american-airlines-flight-5342","category-american-airlines-group","category-ronald-reagan-washington-national-airport","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371734,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371733\/revisions\/371734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}