Date:	Wednesday 29 January 2025
Time:	20:48 LT
Type:	Bombardier CRJ-701ER (CL-600-2C10)
Owner/operator:	American Eagle, opb PSA Airlines
Registration:	N709PS
MSN:	10165
Year of manufacture:	2004
Engine model:	GE CF34-8C5
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 64 / Occupants: 64
Other fatalities:	3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Washington-Ronald Reagan National Airport, DC (DCA/KDCA) -   United States of America
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, KS (ICT/KICT)
Destination airport:	Washington-Ronald Reagan National Airport, DC (DCA/KDCA)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
PSA Airlines flight JIA5342, a Bombardier CRJ-701ER (N709PS), and a US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, callsign PAT25, collided in midair and crashed into the Potomac River near Washington-Ronald Reagan National Airport, DC (DCA). All 64 occupants of the CRJ-701 and the three soldiers in the Army helicopter are feared dead according to officials.
The CRJ-701ER was on a night time final approach to runway 33 at DCA at the time. The Black Hawk helicopter was from the Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion, Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. It was flying at low altitude over the Potomac River from north to south while on a required annual night evaluation. They crew had night vision goggles.

KDCA 300152Z 30014G23KT 270V330 10SM CLR 10/M07 A2990 RMK AO2 PK WND 30033/0108 SLP126 T01001072
KDCA 300052Z 29015G25KT 10SM CLR 11/M07 A2987 RMK AO2 SLP114 T01061072