American Airlines jet, army helicopter collide, crash into Washington’s Potomac River

“She texted me that she was landing in 20 minutes,” he said. “The rest of my text didn’t … did not get delivered. That’s when I realised that something might be up. I’m just praying that someone is pulling her out of the river right now.”The US Army said in a statement it could “confirm that the aircraft involved in tonight’s incident was an army UH-60 helicopter out of Fort Belvoir, Virginia”.There has not been a fatal US passenger aeroplane accident since February 2009, but a series of near-miss incidents in recent years have raised serious safety concerns.In 1982, Air…