Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls the deadly aircraft collision involving a Black Hawk and a civilian airliner "a tragedy" in a statement obtained exclusively by Fox News.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a regional passenger jet in Washington, D.C. was flying too high at the time of the accident, in what appeared to be a major disclosure about the investigation.

The training of U.S. military helicopter pilots is getting heightened attention following the mid-air collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger jet.

The midair collision Wednesday night between a regional American Airlines passenger jet and a Black Hawk military helicopter over the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., was "absolutely" preventable,

I couldn’t make sense of what I saw because it didn’t seem like they were coming directly out of the plane,” one witness said of the sparks he saw.