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ARLINGTON, Va. − Crews returned to the Potomac River and forged ahead with a massive salvage effort on Wednesday, one week after a horrifying midair crash that killed all 67 people aboard a passenger ...

The instrument approach for Runway 1 calls for a descending plane to cross over the helicopter corridor while the plane is at a much higher altitude, somewhere from 620 to 1,700 feet and more than ...

ATC: "PAT-25, there's traffic just south of the Wilson Bridge, CRJ is at 1,200ft setting up for Runway 33 ... next spotted 40 seconds later at an altitude of 1,600ft, having veered off ...

The helicopter's maximum allowed altitude at the time of the crash was 200 feet above ... air traffic controllers asked the arriving commercial jet if it could land on the shorter Runway 33 at Reagan ...

That is a shorter runway intended for smaller aircraft, like American Airlines 5342. Pilots who land there told CBS News they want to be at the "floor," or lowest altitude during their approach ...

ATC: "PAT-25, there's traffic just south of the Wilson Bridge, CRJ is at 1,200ft setting up for Runway 33." • PAT-25 ... The suspected helicopter was next spotted 40 seconds later at an altitude of ...

a shorter runway used for these types of small jet aircraft, and the helicopter was flying a published helicopter route with an altitude limitation. At low levels and on clear nights, the lights of ...

but the tower controller requested a change to another runway.The altitude and speed data our teams analyzed also paint a terrifying picture.The flight tracking data follows the altitude of each ...