The American Airlines Flight 5342 was cruising at about 325ft, with a 25ft margin of error on either side. Data from the control tower showed that the Black Hawk was flying at an altitude of about 200ft.<\/p>\n Experts have yet to explain the approximate 100-foot difference in altitude readings. However, if the crash happened at the altitude the plane was reported to be at, the collision happened at an altitude above the maximum of what a helicopter can safely operate at in the area.<\/p>\n At the time being, investigators are trying to retrieve data from the helicopter\u2019s black box, which became waterlogged after submerging into icy waters of the Potomac River.<\/p>\n Speaking of the ongoing investigation, Brice Banning, NTSB investigator in charge, said, \u201cThis is a complex investigation. There are a lot of pieces here. Our team is working hard to gather this data.\u201d<\/p>\n Further, he added the jet\u2019s black boxes revealed the crew having a verbal reaction. As the plane started to increase its pitch, \u201csounds of impact were audible about one second later, followed by the end of the recording,\u201d Banning\u00a0added.<\/p>\n President Trump gave his insight into the collision. He said that the helicopter was flying \u201ctoo high,\u201d and \u201cfar above its 200 foot limit.\u201d He added: \u201cThat\u2019s not really too complicated to understand, is it???\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The\u00a0crash\u00a0between the American Airlines plane and the US Army Black Hawk helicopter is one of the deadliest US air collisions in recent years. Sadly, all of the people onboard the jet and the helicopter presumed dead. The jet carried 64 people while the Black Hawk had three members of the military onboard at the time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6228,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6226\/revisions\/6228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/boreddaddy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/AA1yc2m3.jpg?ezimgfmt=rs:768x512\/rscb2\/ng:webp\/ngcb2\")
<\/a>Hopefully, they would be able to reconcile the differences in the altitude.<\/h3>\n
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