The passenger jet that crashed into an Army helicopter before landing at Ronald Reagan International Airport Wednesday evening is serving as an eerie reminder of a similar tragedy 64 years ago.
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An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night while coming in for a landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near ...
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Mid-air collisions are even rarer—the last one in the U.S. was in 1978. The incident has renewed focus on the recent history of crashes ... A cause of the Jan. 29 crash has not yet been determined.