WE DEFINITELY FELT THE IMPACT HERE IN BOSTON. KATIE ANTOINETTE. THAT’S RIGHT. JUST SADNESS HERE AT LOGAN AIRPORT ALL MORNING LONG. THAT SADNESS SHARED ACROSS THE COUNTRY, BUT ALSO CONFUSION FROM TRAVELERS WAITING TO FIND OUT IF REAGAN NATIONAL WAS GOING TO REOPEN, A DECISION THAT WAS MADE THIS MORNING. THIS MORNING, REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT IS BACK OPEN AFTER THE DEADLY CRASH BETWEEN AN AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT AND A BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER FOR TRAVELERS FLYING FROM LOGAN AIRPORT TO OUR NATION’S CAPITAL. TODAY, THERE WAS A SOMBER MOOD BEFORE TAKEOFF. FIRST OF ALL, SHOCK. AND THEN HORRIFIED. IT WAS REALLY SHOCKING BECAUSE WE’VE BEEN HERE LIKE 20 YEARS SINCE SOMETHING MAJOR LIKE THIS HAPPENED IN OUR COUNTRY. AND TO SEE THE VIDEO LIVE WAS JUST, WAS JUST HORRIFIC. FOR SECURITY EXPERT ED CASH, WHO HAS FLOWN INTO REAGAN, MORE THAN 200 TIMES, HE IS SHOCKED BY THIS DEADLY CRASH, BUT NOT SURPRISED GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF AIR TRAFFIC IN THE SKIES ABOVE DC. YOU HAVE A VERY TIGHT WINDOW FOR PLANES TO LAND AFTER 911. YOU HAVE TO FLY A DIRECT PATH. YOU’VE GOT THE WHITE HOUSE, THE CAPITOL, SO THEY HAVE A SPECIFIC PATH FOR PLANES TO FLY IN. OFTEN FOR, FOR EVERYONE. AND WHILE THERE IS SADNESS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND GLOBE FOR THE VICTIMS AND FAMILIES, THERE ARE SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THIS ALL HAPPENED AND WHAT CHANGES CAN BE MADE TO MAKE SURE THIS NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. I THINK THE HELICOPTER PILOTS, YOU KNOW, WHERE WERE THEY? THEY CAN THEY CAN STOP QUICKER THAN AN AIRCRAFT CAN. AND THAT AIRCRAFT THAT IT CAME IN ON A DIFFERENT RUNWAY THAT IS NOT USED THAT OFTEN. IN TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY SEAN DUFFY EMPHASIZED TODAY AT A PRESS CONFERENCE THAT TRAVEL. AIR TRAVEL IN THE U.S. IS STILL SAFE. REPORTING LIVE AT LOG
Flights between Logan International Airport, Reagan National Airport canceled after midair collision near DC
Updated: 12:46 PM EST Jan 30, 2025
Several flights in and out of Boston’s Logan International Airport were canceled Thursday after a jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) near Washington.The Federal Aviation Administration said the midair crash happened at 8:48 p.m. when a regional jet that had departed from Wichita, Kansas, collided with the military helicopter on a training flight while on approach to an airport runway.Three people were on the Army Black Hawk, which was on a training mission.At least 13 flights arriving or departing Logan for Reagan were canceled, according to flight tracking data. For travelers flying from Logan to the nation’s capital, there was a somber mood before takeoff.”First of all — shock and then horrified,” passenger Harriet Segal said.”It was, like, really shocking because we’ve been, like what, 20 years since something major like this happened in our country?” passenger Parthi Rajasekaran said.Security expert Ed Cash has flown into Reagan National nearly 200 times. He said he’s shocked by the deadly crash but not surprised, given the amount of air traffic in the skies above Washington, D.C.”You have a very tight window for planes to land. After 9/11, you have to fly a direct path. You’ve got the White House, the Capitol so they have a specific path for planes to fly in often for everyone,” Cash said.While there is sadness across the country and the globe for the victims and their families, there are serious questions about how the crash happened and what changes can be made to make sure this never happens again.”I think the helicopter pilots, where were they, they can stop quicker than an aircraft can and that aircraft that it came in on a different runway that is not used that often,” Cash said.
Several flights in and out of Boston’s Logan International Airport were canceled Thursday after a jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) near Washington.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the midair crash happened at 8:48 p.m. when a regional jet that had departed from Wichita, Kansas, collided with the military helicopter on a training flight while on approach to an airport runway.
Three people were on the Army Black Hawk, which was on a training mission.
At least 13 flights arriving or departing Logan for Reagan were canceled, according to flight tracking data.
For travelers flying from Logan to the nation’s capital, there was a somber mood before takeoff.
“First of all — shock and then horrified,” passenger Harriet Segal said.
“It was, like, really shocking because we’ve been, like what, 20 years since something major like this happened in our country?” passenger Parthi Rajasekaran said.
Security expert Ed Cash has flown into Reagan National nearly 200 times. He said he’s shocked by the deadly crash but not surprised, given the amount of air traffic in the skies above Washington, D.C.
“You have a very tight window for planes to land. After 9/11, you have to fly a direct path. You’ve got the White House, the Capitol so they have a specific path for planes to fly in often for everyone,” Cash said.
While there is sadness across the country and the globe for the victims and their families, there are serious questions about how the crash happened and what changes can be made to make sure this never happens again.
“I think the helicopter pilots, where were they, they can stop quicker than an aircraft can and that aircraft that it came in on a different runway that is not used that often,” Cash said.
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