# 2025 American Aviation Crisis

In 2025, United States’s civil aviation suffered an crisis characterized for constant Aviation accidents and incidents, which raised fear in many people about the safety of flying. This accidents were the 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision, Med Jets Flight 056, and Bering Air Flight 445.

## 2025 Potomac River mid-air colision

On January 29, 2025, an PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 crashed with an Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk over the Potomac River, killing all 67 people onboard both aircrafs. The Aircraft departed from Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport and was preparing for land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. While the Sikorsky UH-60 departed from Davison Army Airfield for an military training flight.
The crash marked the first Mid-air collision in the United States since Aeroméxico Flight 498, and the deadliest crash in the United States since American Airlines Flight 587.

## Washington Air traffic control crisis

The American Eagle plane crash marked concerns in American Crowded air space. Before the crash, a lot of close calls were made at the Washington international airport due to Washington, D.C., Special Flight Rules Area restrictions, which limited the number of ways airplanes could land at Ronald Reagan International Airport.
Two people involved in the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority were put in custody after CNN webcam surveillance footage was revealed to public.

## Med Jets Flight 056

On January 31, 2025, an Air medical services Learjet 55 operating as Med Jets Flight 056 nosedived and crash with residential houses killing all 6 people onboard and 1 person on the ground, and leaving 24 people injured.
The aircraft was transporting an young patient along with her mother and 4 crew members, all Mexicans. The crash resulted in four houses destroyed and seventeen more being damaged. After the crash, the FAA ordered a Ground stop at Philadelphia International Airport. On February 2, the FAA found the Flight recorders from the crash site and were sent to evaluation to Washington, D.C.

## Bering Air Flight 445

On February 7, 2025 a Cessna 208 Caravan operating as Bering Air Flight 445 crashed while flying over Norton Sound killing all 10 people onboard.
The Aircraft departed from Unalakleet Airport and was flying to Nome Airport, when it disappeared only 10 minutes before arriving at its destination airport while flying over Norton Sound, before disappearing it was cleared to do an holding pattern while waiting for runaway to be cleared.
The aircraft was found crashed in ice around 34 miles before it’s final destination. A Lockheed C-130 Hercules was flying along with various other Bering Air planes around final radio contact.

## Domestic and administration reactions

Donald Trump give condolences to victims of the American Eagle crash and will be in a meeting with relatives of the deceased, though this declarations would be later criticized. After all this crashes, reliability in Aviation safety was criticized and doubted by many people around the world.
Many people also questioned the efficiency of Air traffic control Staff in preventing plane crashes or mid-air colisions, reporting mass fatigue in Air Traffic Control staff, which could have affected the efficiency of ATC at preventing plane crashes. This was preluded by recent tragedies such as Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, or Jeju Air Flight 2216, which further painted an somber picture in aviation.