3. The Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near Washington, D.C., last week may have been flying higher than the maximum altitude for its training mission, authorities say.

The Black Hawk is a medium-duty utility helicopter that can carry a dozen fully armed soldiers (or whatever else you can fit in that same space) to and from the battlefield quickly and safely.

The Army has identified the third soldier aboard the Black Hawk helicopter involved in Wednesday’s deadly midair collision near Reagan National Airport after it had been initially withheld.

The Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a commercial jet near Reagan Washington National Airport had taken off from Davison Army Airfield at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, about 15 miles southwest ...

(CNN) — The Black Hawk military helicopter involved in Wednesday’s midair collision in Washingon, DC, was training to evacuate government officials in the case of a catastrophic event when it ...

The Black Hawk helicopter involved in the deadly D.C. plane crash on Wednesday night was being flown by a female pilot with over 500 hours of flight time, who was training with an instructor pilot.

The military helicopter that collided with a regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in a crash that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft was a UH-60 Black Hawk ...

On Wednesday, a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger plane, killing 67 people Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award winning journalist who has spent 20 years as ...

The US Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines flight Wednesday evening is one of the most popular and recognizable helicopters in the US military, with variants ...

An Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flies along the coast in Laguna Beach, Calif., on Nov. 8.