“Heartbreak Above the Capital: Remembering Crew and Passengers Lost in Potomac Collision”
The Tragic Collision On a seemingly normal winter evening in the Washington, D.C. area, disaster struck as an American Airlines flight arriving from Wichita, Kansas, collided mid-air with a U.S. military helicopter over the Potomac River. Among the 67 lives lost were flight attendants Danasia Elder and Ian Epstein, and pilots Captain Jonathan Campos and …