Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls the deadly aircraft collision involving a Black Hawk and a civilian airliner "a tragedy" in a statement obtained exclusively by Fox News.
In a post on X, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the Army helicopter crew involved in the deadly midair collision with an American Airlines jet was “fairly experienced,” and called the accident a “horrible loss of life.
The Army helicopter that slammed into a passenger plane on Wednesday night was on a 'routine annual retraining,' Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth said.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he has grounded the Army battalion involved in the operation of the Black Hawk helicopter with three soldiers that crashed into a passenger plane with more than
Watch live as defense secretary Pete Hegseth addresses the nation after 67 passengers are feared dead after an American Airlines jet collided with a military helicopter..
Investigators have recovered the black boxes from the American Airlines jet involved in a mid-air collision with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C.
An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, with no survivors expected.
The Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines commuter plane near Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia Wednesday was on a “training flight” when it crashed into the Potomac River, according to the military service branch.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth addresses fatal collision between Army helicopter and American Airlines flight.
The Federal Aviation Authority has confirmed US Army Blackhawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane were involved in a mid-air collision.
Watch again as Donald Trump held a press conference on Thursday, 30 January, after an American Airlines regional plane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided in Washington, DC. The deadly crash occurred around 9 p.