Investigators: Data from Fatal D.C. Crash Shows Conflicting Altitude Readings
Investigators say data from the fatal jet and helicopter crash near Washington, DC, showed conflicting readings of the crafts’ altitudes.

Investigators say data from the fatal jet and helicopter crash near Washington, DC, showed conflicting readings of the crafts’ altitudes.
A 30-year-old Howard University professor has been named among the victims in the midair crash that occurred on Wednesday evening at Reagan National Airport near Washington, DC.
American Airlines CEO Robert Isom appeared to blame the Black Hawk military helicopter for the collision on Wednesday at Ronald Reagan National Airport, CNBC reported Thursday.
Two Turkish military helicopters collided in midair on Monday, causing one of them to crash and killing five military personnel on board, an official said. The second helicopter landed safely.
Over half-a-million pounds of supplies have been delivered to western North Carolina by volunteers flying private helicopters after Hurricane Helene, local reports have said.
Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle has made several helicopter supply drops in remote areas of Hurricane Helene’s destructive path, even getting much-needed medication to someone stranded in the North Carolina mountains after they signaled with a mirror.
A helicopter on a mission over the southern border near Rio Grande City, Texas, crashed on Friday, killing two National Guard soldiers and a Border Patrol agent.
One of Nigeria’s most prominent bankers, Herbert Wigwe, was killed along with his wife, son, and two others in a Friday night helicopter crash in the California desert.
Search and rescue crews are looking for a missing military helicopter carrying five Marines, the U.S. Marine Corps said Wednesday.
Three crew members on an ambulance helicopter were killed when the aircraft crashed on Saturday in Oklahoma, officials said.
U.S. Army Special Operations Command on Monday released the names of five Army special operators who were killed Friday in a helicopter crash in the Mediterranean Sea.
Ukraine has used U.S.-made cluster-bomb-tipped rockets from the ATACMS system for the first time, it is claimed.
Two people were killed Monday when a Broward Sheriff’s Office helicopter fell from the sky and crashed into an apartment building in Florida.
Ukrainian armed forces announce the third downing this working week, at least two of them claimed to be attack helicopters.
Law enforcement in Fairfax County, Virginia, recently encountered a laser pointer allegedly targeting a police helicopter from an apartment building.
A decorative helicopter fell into a pool inside the American Dream Mall in New Jersey, injuring four people.
Green-agenda-loving PM Rishi Sunak has allegedly taken multiple helicopter rides costing thousands of pounds since becoming leader, a report has claimed.
A Detroit, Michigan, man was shot dead Tuesday around 8:30 p.m. after allegedly pointing a green laser at a police helicopter, then opening fire on it as it hovered above his house.
A pilot, two British visitors and a Sydney woman have been identified as the four people killed in a collision of two helicopters.
Two helicopters collided in an Australian tourist hotspot, killing four passengers and critically injuring three others.
An NYPD detective suffered a serious leg injury after he fell 20 feet from a helicopter during a training exercise on Thursday afternoon.
Doorbell camera footage captured the moment a helicopter crash landed in the front yard of home Fresno, California, home.
Four are dead after a Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) helicopter crashed in New Mexico on Saturday night.
A cable-car accident in eastern India’s Jharkhand state on Sunday — which left dozens of frightened passengers hanging mid-air for 40 consecutive hours — turned deadly after two people fell to their deaths during subsequent helicopter rescue missions and a third person died from injuries sustained inside one of the carriages, the Indian Express reported Thursday.
An officer with the Huntington Beach Police Department was killed when a police helicopter crashed near Newport Beach, California, on Saturday, according to officials.
New York State Police airlifted an injured hiker off of Crane Mountain in the Adirondacks on the afternoon of September 11.
The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) documented the first successful flight of an aircraft over another planet as the Ingenuity helicopter flew 10 feet above the surface of Mars for 39 seconds on Monday.
A four-year-old bone marrow transplant recipient fulfilled her dream of riding a medical helicopter when she was released from the hospital after three months.
A Dutch military helicopter has crashed into the Caribbean Sea near the island of Aruba, killing two of the crew.
A helicopter pilot flying supplies to hurricane-devastated areas of the Bahamas found villagers stranded in rubble on one of the islands.
Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky helicopter plant in Pennsylvania has announced it will keep its doors open, thanks to President Donald Trump’s request.
Several Democrat New York lawmakers are pushing for increased restrictions on helicopters flying around the city because it is just “too dangerous.”
NANTERRE, France (AP) — French investigators believe a team of four or five loyal accomplices carried out the brazen prison helicopter escape of one of France’s most notorious criminals.
NASA’s aircraft is roughly the size of a softball and weighs less than four pounds. It will make five autonomous flights above the surface of Mars in 2021.
Actor and environmental activist Arnold Schwarzenegger is gassing up the chopper for a gas-burning helicopter joy ride for some lucky contestant, even after he said that he would sue oil companies for killing people with fossil fuels.
An MP has slammed the BBC for spending more than a thousand pounds hiring a helicopter to follow former minister Priti Patel from the airport to Downing Street.
Federal officials announced Sunday that a man appeared to have leaped to his death from a helicopter off the coast of Malibu, California, Saturday afternoon.
LONDON (AP) — A British ex-police officer has been given a year in jail for using a helicopter to film people having sex.
An attack helicopter on a training mission crashed on a base in southern Israel Monday night, killing the pilot and critically injuring a crew member, the army said.
Dramatic images of a police helicopter flying over Caracas, Venezuela, began circulating on social media Tuesday evening, with dictator Nicolás Maduro claiming that the helicopter had shot at and thrown grenades at the headquarters of the nation’s Supreme Court.