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This Was America's Worst Crash In 24 Years | 2025 Potomac Collision

This is the story of american airlines flight 5342 on the 29th of january 2025 a CRJ 900 was on a flight from Wichita kansas to ronald regan international airport in with 60 people on board. The flight was uneventful and soon the crew was ready to take the plane in. At 8:30 Pm the CRJ passed south of dulles and about 20 nm west of DCA, the pilots put the plane into a turn to the south to prepare for a northbound approach into DCA. As the CRJ was manevering to get into position a sirsoky UH 60 or a black hawk was getting ready to take off from division army airfield. The chopper landed on a grass field in culpepper virginia and then flew north before heading east into maryland, then the chopper landed at lytonsville maryland and then made its way towards washington DC. In the DCA control tower the controller was handling both aircraft and chopper traffic, but the thing is choppers and planes used different frequencies so the planes couldnt hear the helicopters and the helicopters could not hear the planes. This meant that it was possible for either the plane or the chopper pilots would not have the full picture of what was going on. At 8:32 as the pilot of the chopper PAT 25 contacted the DCA tower and requested to transition to the DCA airspace Via helicopter routes 1 and 4. The controller gave the crew an altimeter setting of 28.89 and the controller verified the readback, As all of this was happening the instructor pilot who was flying the helicopter handed control the the pilot in the left seat so now the instructor was monitoring and communicating with ATC and the pilot in the left seat flew the chopper. The controller cleared the chopper via the requested route but in the cockpit the crew was talking about how bad the audio quality of the controllers transmissions were. As the chopper reached cabin john they made a bit of a wrong turn but they corrected their mistake and then rejoined the path that they were cleared for. Thats this little loop you see here. At 8:39 the crj was cleared by the Potomac Consolidated Terminal Radar Approach Contro or Potomac Tracon for the mount vernon visual approach to for runway 1 at DCA, the captain was the one flying and the first officer was the one monitoring. This was a beautiful night with tons of visibility and the landing should be easy except for one thing the winds, the winds had thrown a wrench into their works. The controller then asked if the crew of the CRJ could switch to runway 33 for landing , the cpatin asked his first officer if he had the numbers for the 33 approach and the landing performance was good but the captain wasnt sold on the idea he said ““I really don’t want to but I guess uhh tell ‘em…nah its fine we got the numbers for it yeah tell ‘em, we’re fine we’ll do three three…” the crj was now cleared for runway 33. The controller cleared the CRJ to circle the runway at the woodrow wilson bridge and the crew acknowledged. “three three…thousand feet at the highway. Five hundred over the church,” the captain said referring to the predetermine altitudes that they had to hit on their way down to the runway. Then the crew turned off the autopilot and the pilots took the plane away from the runway 1 localizer course. In the blackhawk the pilot was telling her instructor that it was quote “getting choppy close to the ground” as the chopper flew over the george town reservoir they were descending down to 200 feet, once at 200 feet the instructor pilot reported their position over the memorial bridge, as the chopper flew the crew chief was calling out obstructions that could be issues to their flight he said “clear left crane no factor”, as they were navigating this urban environment the pilots of the blackhwawk get a very important message from the controller “PAT two five traffic just south of Wilson Bridge is a C-R-J at one thousand two hundred feet circling runway three three”, the instructor pilot had the CRJ in sight and said ““PAT two five has the traffic in sight request visual separation,” the the chopper and the CRJ were 6.5 miles apart right now. The instructor pilot could see that planes were lined up for runway 33 and remarks “hes got em stacked up tonight”, but the pilot? She was fighting the wind, flight 5342 the CRJ was at 500 feet as the jet turned left for its final approach to the runway the first officer calls out i got two white two red. The controller now gets a warning something wasnt wrong, the conflict alert was going off and he says “PAT two five do you have the C-R-J in sight?”