How was the Bombardier Crj700 that crashed with a helicopter in Washington

More than 20 years of flights had the plane that will go down in history for starring a tragic clash with a helicopter This Wednesday night, while approaching the track of the Reagan National Airport of Washington, located near the Potomac River. Flight 5342 came from Wichita, Kansas.

The aircraft, in which 60 passengers and four crew members were travelingit was a Bombardier Crj700 operated by PSA Airlines (an American Airlines subsidiary). This model is an elongated version of the CRJ200 and has the capacity for 78 passengers, according to the Air Charter Service site. In addition, it is noted that it was officially launched in 1997 and made its first test flight on May 27, 1999.

This is the Most serious plane crash occurred in American territory for American Airlines in the last 24 years. The last one occurred in 2001, when the AA 587 flight, operated with an Airbus A300, crashed into the Queens neighborhood, after taking off the John F. Kennedy airport in New York. The tragic balance was 265 dead.

In addition, it is the first accident that involves a CRJ 700 and the most serious of an aircraft made by Bombardier, according to local media.

On the other hand, according to the first information, the helicopter (UH-60 Black Hawk) that flew over the airport made a “training flight“said US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, who described the accident as”absolutely tragic“.

In the aircraft, which had the capacity to transport 15 people, three soldiers were on board that, according to the first versions that circulated, they would not have heard the alerts of the control tower that reported that they were on the route of the commercial plane.

The helicopter was assigned to the Bravo Company of the 12th Aviation Battalion, which operates from the Davidson Army airfield in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, according to Heather Chairez, head of media of the joint task force of the national capital, to through a statement.