These two Sikorsky UH-60 "Black Hawk" helicopters shown on approach during Han Kuang military exercises in Taiwan in 2023 are like the one involved in the Washington, D.C., crash with an American Airlines plane.
The American Airlines jet was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members when it collided with Black Hawk Army helicopter built by Connecticut's Sikorsky.
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.
The helicopter collided with passenger plane carrying 64 people and crew, crashing into the Potomar River late on Wednesday night.
The UH-60 Black Hawk is the helicopter involved in a crash with a passenger jet on Wednesday night near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.
A U.S. Army UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter has completed initial ground runs with two of the new T901 Improved Turbine Engines. Developed under the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP), the T901 was planned to power the now-canceled Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) but will instead make its way into the UH-60 and the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter.
The UH-60 Black Hawk has been deployed to dozens of combat zones around the world. Sikorsky has built more than 5,000 of them in Stratford since the 1970s.
The Blackhawk that struck an American Airlines flight landing at Reagan airport had three soldiers on board and no VIPs or senior officials were involved.
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President Donald Trump believes that Wednesday night's crash involving an American Airlines plane and black hawk over the Potomac River "should have been prevented." Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday with his take on the collision,