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Washington plane crash LIVE updates: Passenger jet collides with helicopter while landing at DC’s Reagan National Airport


U.S. secretary of transportation Sean Duffy and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser arrive to a media briefing at Reagan National Airport after a plane crashed into the Potomac River outside Washington, DC, January 30, 2025.
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A jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided on Wednesday (January 30, 2025) with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River.

There was no immediate word on casualties or the cause of the collision, but takeoffs and landings from the airport near Washington were halted as helicopters from law enforcement agencies across the region flew over the scene in search of survivors.

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