The first of the National Transportation Safety Board’s three days of investigative hearings is underway to help determine what caused the deadly midair collision on January 29 between an Army helicopter on a training mission and American Airlines flight 5342 landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

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NTSB hearings and documents revealed failures by the Army and FAA in the Jan. 29 crash of an American Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk that killed 67.

The NTSB continued its hearings Thursday into the deadly air collision between a military aircraft and a passenger jet.

FILE PHOTO: A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the river, by the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., February 4, 2025. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo