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An American Airlines pitchy with 60 passengers and 4 unit members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army chopper portion coming successful for a landing astatine Ronald Reagan National Airport adjacent Washington and aggregate radical were killed.
Fatal crashes of commercialized craft successful the U.S. person go a rarity. The deadliest caller clang was successful 2009 adjacent Buffalo, New York. All 45 passengers and the 4 unit members were killed erstwhile the Bombardier DHC-8 propeller level crashed into a house. One idiosyncratic connected the crushed besides was killed.
The collision Wednesday of the Bombardier CRJ-701 twin-engine level and UH-60 Blackhawk occurred implicit the Potomac River and the craft fell into the water. In 1982 an Air Florida formation crashed into the Potomac and killed 78.
Here are immoderate of the deadliest commercialized level crashes successful the U.S. since the Air Florida catastrophe according to reports from the National Transportation Safety Board:
— Feb. 12, 2009: A Colgan Air level crashed adjacent Buffalo, New York, sidesplitting everyone aboard the Bombardier DHC-8 propeller plane, including 45 passengers, 2 pilots and 2 formation attendants. Another idiosyncratic connected the crushed besides died, bringing the full decease toll to 50.
— Aug. 27, 2006: A Comair craft crashed erstwhile taking disconnected successful Lexington, Kentucky, aft it near from the incorrect runway and ran disconnected the end. Two unit members and 47 passengers were killed.
— Nov. 12, 2001: Just aft takeoff, an American Airlines formation crashed into a residential country of Belle Harbor, New York. All 260 radical aboard the level were killed.
— Sept. 11, 2001: Nearly 3,000 radical were killed arsenic 19 al-Qaida hijackers seized power of 4 jetliners, sending 2 of the planes into New York’s World Trade Center, a 3rd into the Pentagon successful Arlington, Virginia, and the 4th into a tract successful occidental Pennsylvania. It remains the deadliest panic onslaught successful history.
— Jan. 31, 2000: An Alaska Airlines formation crashed into the Pacific Ocean adjacent Anacapa Island, California. The clang killed 83 passengers and 5 unit members.
— July 17, 1996: A Trans World Airlines formation crashed successful the Atlantic Ocean adjacent East Moriches, New York, connected its mode to Paris, France. All 230 radical connected committee were killed, and the airplane was destroyed.
— May 11, 1996: A Valujet Airlines formation crashed into the Everglades astir 10 minutes aft takeoff from the Miami International Airport. The clang killed each 105 passengers and 5 unit members.
— Oct. 31, 1994: An American Eagle formation successful Roselawn, Indiana, crashed, sidesplitting 64 passengers and 4 unit members.
— Sept. 8, 1994: A USAir formation crashed portion attempting to onshore successful Pittsburgh. It killed 127 passengers and 5 unit members. The airplane was destroyed by the interaction and fire.
— July 19, 1989: A United Airlines formation experienced an motor nonaccomplishment and crashed portion attempting to onshore successful Sioux City, Iowa, sidesplitting 110 passengers and 1 unit member.
— Aug. 16, 1987: A Northwest Airlines formation crashed conscionable aft taking disconnected successful Romulus, Michigan, striking airy poles, a rental car installation and the ground. The clang killed 148 passengers and six unit members.
— Aug. 2, 1985: A Delta Air Lines formation crashed erstwhile approaching to onshore astatine the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport during a thunderstorm. It struck a car and 2 h2o tanks, and killed 134 passengers and unit members.
— July 9, 1982: A Pan American World Airways formation crashed conscionable aft takeoff adjacent New Orleans, Louisiana, and collided with trees and houses, sidesplitting 145 radical onboard.
— Jan. 13, 1982: An Air Florida formation plummeted into the Potomac, sidesplitting 70 passengers and 4 unit members. That clang was attributed to atrocious weather.
