What to know about the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter involved in D.C. crash
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.
The trials mark the first time one of the new GE Aerospace T901 Improved Turbine Engines has been powered up inside a ...
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Sikorsky Conducts First Ground Test of GE’s T901 Engines on UH-60 Black HawkThe GE T901 engine was developed as part of the Improved Turbine Engine Program to replace the T700 engines used by U.S. Army’s UH-60s and the AH-64s, and ...
The UH-60 Black Hawk is the helicopter involved in a crash with a passenger jet on Wednesday night near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.
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Everything We Know about the Airliner and Black Hawk who Collided On Approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National AirportMultiple fatalities have been reported after a horrific incident involving American Airlines flight 5342 and a U.S. Army ...
None are believed to have survived the Wednesday night collision, which caused both aircraft to plunge into the frigid Potomac River.
The UH-60 Black Hawk has been deployed to dozens of combat zones around the world. Sikorsky has built more than 5,000 of them in Stratford since the 1970s.
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