All 64 people aboard an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter were feared dead in what was likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a quarter century, officials said Thursday.
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00:00Blackjack 3, um, can you return to base?
00:03Blackjack 3, proceed directly to Glebe, I need you to land.
00:07Stand by, I need you to land immediately.
00:11I need you to land immediately. Can you go to Dallas for a few minutes?
00:15Marshal 1-3, can you go to Baltimore?
00:18Uh, Blue 6-53-0-5, I don't know if you saw it, but about 2,000 feet on our 3 o'clock, about 500 feet up in the air.
00:24Looks like it was flared or something going off right now.
00:27We're handling right now, stand by.
00:29Blue 6-53-0-5, I believe they're going to close the Air Force for an indefinite amount of time.
00:33My suggestion is to go back to the gate.
00:36I don't know if we caught it earlier, what happened, but there was a collision on the approach from the 3-3.
00:43We're going to be shutting down operations for the indefinite future.
00:46If you want to go back to the gate, I highly suggest you guys coordinate with the company and let me know what you want to do.
00:50Alright, we'll let the company talk to them right now.
00:53Yeah, we witnessed the whole thing.
00:55You can keep the information for a month.
00:57Okay, not quite yet, but just remain on frequency and I'll give you a phone number here in a second.
01:02Alright, thanks.
01:04For JetBlue 25-23, did you witness the encounter?
01:08Affirmative.
01:09Okay, Delta 8-32 and Blue 6, for both JetBlue and Delta and Blue 6-53-0-5, can you give me a phone number, just give me one second.