A heart-wrenching simulation put viewers in the pilots’ seats during the horrifying moments an American Airlines passenger plane and an Army Blackhawk helicopter collided over Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport last year.

Using Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2024, the independent federal agency was able to model what happened in the moments before the crash for both the Black Hawk belonging to the US Army's 12th Aviation Battalion and the American Airlines medium-haul aircraft.

The helicopter was mistakenly looking at a different plane, officials said at a new hearing, noting air traffic control involved could have issued more specific guidance

A digital recreation of the fatal January 2025 collision between a PSA Airlines CRJ700 and US Army Black Hawk helicopter over Washington shows the military rotorcraft was nearly impossible to see against city lights when the crash occurred.

A terrifying visual simulation recreated the minutes leading up to the tragic collision of an American Airs flight and a Black Hawk helicopter that claimed 67 lives […]

Two days shy of the one-year anniversary of a tragedy that killed 67 people near the nation’s capital, the National Transportation Safety Board is presenting its findings in the investigation and new visual simulations of the view of the pilots of each aircraft to determine the probable cause of the midair collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet.

American Airlines Flight 5342 investigators have released some very troubling footage a year after the fatal helicopter collision.

After a yearlong investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board did not find a single cause for the deadly collision near Washington, D.C., but blamed the crash on multiple systemic failures.

Shortly after the crash, another helicopter flew near the slackline, the National Transportation Safety Board investigation report said.