The jet’s sterling safety record won’t help Bombardier, however, as the Quebec manufacturer divested its aircraft programs to focus on private jets for business customers and the ultrawealthy.

The Bombardier CRJ700 is a small single-aisle jet that can be arranged with seating for up to 78 passengers. American Airlines says its version is set up to fit 65 passengers. Introduced nearly 25 years ago,

Here is a photo of a standard PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 series regional jet, from the American Airlines website. According to a brochure from Bombardier CRJ Series, the jet can hold up to 78 people. Per a flight manifest, American Eagle Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas had 60 passengers and four crew on board.

A Bombardier CRJ700 , operating under American Airlines’ regional brand American Eagle, crashed into the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday, January 29th at around 9pm.

The type of jet involved in the crash was built by Canadian-based Bombardier as part of a line of smaller regional jets.

The airliner involved in the DCA crash came into service 20 years ago and averaged around 50 flights per year.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators have released images that show the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder after it was recovered from the Bombardier CRJ700 plane involved in the deadly midair collision with an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport Wednesday.

Here are images of the two aircrafts involved in the crash, taken from airline websites and directly manufacturers.

An American Airlines jet carrying 64 people collided Wednesday with a helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, with no survivors expected.

Bombardier CRJ700 flight, a popular aircraft in smaller air hubs, was carrying Russian and US figure skaters when it collided with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter mid-air

Two former Russian figure skating champions were among the passengers as a Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the aircraft, resulting in dozens of fatalitie

The Army helicopter and regional American Eagle jet that collided over Washington are both workhorse aircraft that operate around the world on a daily basis. Officials say there were 60