American Airlines
Flight 5432 Crash
(The Potomac River Plane Crash in Washington DC)
When an American Airlines regional plane collided with an Army training helicopter on January 29, 2025, over the Potomac River outside DC, it had been all systems go on the approach to Ronald Reagan National Airport. The air space was “crowded and shared” that night with a queue of flights landing about two minutes apart… “but conditions were clear… and this is not unusual,” said Sean Duffy, the new secretary of transportation.1
All 64 passengers and crew on board the flight plus three on board the helicopter died, totaling 67. Even though the latest statistics still assert air travel is the safest mode of travel in the world, there are closer to twice as many US flights per day now as in 2019 (45,000 up from 25,000). And the BIG question lingers: Could this horrific crash have been prevented?
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“The [Potomac] accident follows a long string of alarming near collisions at airports across the country – a pattern suggesting that the aviation-safety systems upon which human life depends are under enormous strain.”2