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Workers planned to spend several days fishing the rest of the commercial airliner from the water before trying to retrieve the military helicopter.
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Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025
Officials have been at the debris site in the river since shortly after the collision between a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner operating under PSA Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2025
The collision is the deadliest incident involving an American airliner on U.S. soil in nearly 25 years.
—Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
Crash detectives, at least the ones who do airliners, haven’t been busy.
—Matthew L. Wald, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
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Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2025
Officials have been at the debris site in the river since shortly after the collision between a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner operating under PSA Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines.
—Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2025
The collision is the deadliest incident involving an American airliner on U.S. soil in nearly 25 years.
—Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
Crash detectives, at least the ones who do airliners, haven’t been busy.
—Matthew L. Wald, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airliner. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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airliner
noun
air·lin·er
-ˌlī-nər 
: an airplane operated by an airline
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