From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kitroweth.
This is the Daily.
On Wednesday night, a passenger jet and a helicopter collided Midair over Washington, D.C.
it was the deadliest plane crash in the United States in more than 20 years.
Today my colleague Emily Steele explains what we know about what went wrong.
It's Friday, January 31st,
Emily it's 5:30pm on Thursday, not even 24 hours after this awful plane crash in Washington.
And we're talking to you because you've spent a lot of time investigating aviation.
Can you just explain what exactly happened on Wednesday night?
So at 6:18 on Wednesday night, there's an American Airlines flight that takes off from Wichita, Kansas.
It's going to Washington's Reagan National Airport.
And there are 64 people on board.
There are American and Russian figure skaters.
They are flying back from a competition.
There's parents, there's coaches, there are a couple of who had just been coming back from a hunting trip.
This flight is scheduled to land at 9:00 in Washington, D.C.
where it's a clear night.
And about that same time, there's a Blackhawk helicopter.
It's an army helicopter and there are two officers on board.
There's a sergeant on board as well.