For many, the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, like the one involved in the Wednesday collision over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., is familiar for one reason: the 2001 movie "Black Hawk Down ," based on the 1993 shooting down of U.S. Black Hawk helicopters during the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia.

In the days following the deadly midair collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines flight near Reagan National Airport, Col. Tim Zerbe, the State Army Aviation Officer at Pennsylvania National Guard and a graduate of the US Army War College in Carlisle,

The Army pilots were juggling dark skies, low altitude, a busy airspace and a cockpit without certain traffic detectors before the helicopter’s midair crash with a regional passenger jet.

The crew of a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk that fatally struck a commercial airliner was assigned to a Virginia-based VIP transport unit and was performing an annual night proficiency flight at the time of the incident.

The flight traffic data NTSB has obtained confirms the helicopter was flying at 300 feet, the air traffic control display showed. That is 100 feet more than it should be flying in the

A feared blunder made by the black hawk helicopter moments before colliding with an American Airlines passenger jet has been confirmed.

Authorities are searching for the combined flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk involved in a mid-air collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed that flight data showed the military chopper was flying too high when it hit the passenger jet close to the Ronald Reagan Airport

An Army Black Hawk helicopter was flying too high when it crashed into an American Airlines jet near Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC last week, the National Transportation Safety Board confirmed.