The plane crash that involved a Blackhawk helicopter last week over Washington D.C. rocked the entire nation and cost dozens their lives.
According to Breitbart, new video has been released that shows a different angle of the crash between the American Airlines commercial jet and the helicopter, which occurred over the Potomac River.
American Airlines flight 5342, with 60 passengers and four crew, was on its final approach from Witchita, Kansas before colliding with the helicopter, resulting in a fiery explosion.
Multiple videos of the tragic accident have been pushed across social media, which has raised mountains of questions from many as to how such a deadly accident could have occurred.
Many have claimed that the odds of the crew of the Blackhawk helicopter not seeing the large commercial jet are simply too slim to be a terrible, random accident.
Audio transcript from the air traffic control tower was also released this week.
“Um, I just saw a fireball and then it was just gone. I haven’t seen anything since they hit the river. But it was a CRJ [the type of plane that crashed] and a helicopter that hit, I would say a half-mile off the approach," the tower said after the crash.
The new angle in the video that quickly went viral simply served to fuel conspiracy theories that the accident might not have been an accident at all.
There is absolutely NO WAY the Black Hawk didn’t see the American Airlines plane. They flew right into it," Ian Miles Cheong wrote, with the video attached.
There is absolutely NO WAY the Black Hawk didn’t see the American Airlines plane. They flew right into it. pic.twitter.com/Fco4yVzSXy
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 31, 2025
There were plenty of theories and potential explanations for the collission across social media. Some current and former pilots weighed in on the tragedy as well.
"Army helicopter pilot here. Based on what we’ve seen so far, my guess is the PAT Blackhawk helicopter pilots confirmed visual on the wrong aircraft and likely never even saw the aircraft they crashed into. Comms between tower and the helicopter crew weren’t very explicit," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "Helicopter pilot flying so low using NVGs assumed airspace was cleared, his flight vector was consistent for some distance. My question, why is the army doing night training ops near such a busy airport? Amazing this hasn't happened before."
Investigations are already well underway as the American public demands answers as to what happened that evening.
