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American Airlines Flight 5342 Collision

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American Airlines Flight 5342 collided midair with an Army Black Hawk helicopter, killing all aboard.

It was the first commercial airline crash on U.S. soil since Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed into a house near Buffalo , N.Y. , in 2009 .

The average number of fatal aviation incidents that tend to occur during January and February in a given year were down.

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