Led by a mysterious man known as Blackhawk, the Blackhawks (or more formally, the Blackhawk Squadron) are a small team of World War II -era ace pilots of varied nationalities, each typically known under a single name, either their given name or their surname.

1 day ago · With the U.S. Capitol in the background, a crane sits in the Potomac river Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, near the wreckage of an American Airlines jet that collided mid-air with an Army Black Hawk ...

1 day ago · At 8:46 p.m., two minutes before the collision, an air traffic controller tracking both the Black Hawk and the incoming jet told the helicopter’s aircrew that American Airlines Flight 5342 was ...

Jan 30, 2025 · An air traffic controller contacts the Black Hawk helicopter, flying under the call sign PAT 2-5, to confirm it sees American Airlines flight 5342, which he refers to as a “CRJ,” based on the ...

6 days ago · The Army has identified the three crew members who died Wednesday when their Black Hawk helicopter collided with a passenger jet over the Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport ...

1 day ago · The jet was carrying 64 people on board and the Black Hawk was carrying three soldiers. All 67 people died and the remains of 65 victims have been identified, Fox 5 said, citing the D.C.'s chief ...

6 days ago · Black Hawk pilot Jo Ellis was wrongly named on social media as one of the pilots who died in the collision with an American Airlines plane in Washington D.C. on January 29.

4 days ago · The Army identified the third soldier on the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the midair crash over the Potomac River Wednesday night as Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach.

Jan 30, 2025 · The other aircraft was a US Army helicopter - a UH-60 Black Hawk based at Fort Belvoir in Virginia - which was on a training flight. ... Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser said: ...

Apr 26, 2018 · Created in the early 1940s during the months following America's official entry into World War II, Blackhawk both refers to a person who calls himself "Blackhawk" and a squadron of people known as, you guessed it, the Blackhawk Squadron.