American Airlines Plane Crash Leaves No Hope for Survivors

The collision between an American Airlines Group Inc. regional jet and a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan airport in Washington left no survivors on board the two aircraft, authorities said, making it one of the most deadly US air disasters in decades and an early test for President Donald Trump’s administration in his second week in office.
American Flight 5342 that had come in from Wichita, Kansas, with 60 passengers and four crew hit a Sikorsky H-60 Black Hawk helicopter with three military personnel on board while approaching the runway just before 9 p.m. local time on Wednesday. Rescue crews worked through the night to retrieve any survivors, but by early morning their mission had turned into a salvage operation, they said at a press briefing at the airport.
Captain Richard J. Levy, an accident reconstruction and safety expert witness for Aviation Expert Consulting as well as a long-time FAA-certified pilot, explains why he does not believe Wednesday's tragedy reflects any lack of stability within America's broader commercial aviation system. Captain Levy speaks with Tom Keene and Paul Sweeney on Bloomberg Radio.
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