President Trump announced on Thursday that the White House will release the names of the victims of the deadly accident that happened on Wednesday night in coordination with American Airlines.
All 64 people aboard an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter were feared dead in what was likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a quarter century, officials said Thursday.
Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are feared dead as a recovery mission is underway.
Flight recorders have not yet been recovered but the NTSB is "comfortable and confident" that the recorders will be recovered, Inman said. Search and rescue efforts are seen around a wreckage site in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport,
A regional jet carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Reagan National Airport grounded all flights.
Authorities continue to search for bodies and determine what led to the Wednesday, Jan. 29, midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River in the Washington,
"What's the site? The water?" Donald Trump said when asked about the crash in the Washington area that left 67 people dead.
Authorities believe there are no survivors in the accident, which happened as a regional passenger jet was attempting to land Wednesday night at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair with an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday.
A grainy snippet of video footage taken in the dark of night, seemingly by an airport CCTV camera, appears to show the fatal mid-air collision of an American Airlines passenger plane and a military Black Hawk helicopter.
U.S. authorities said on Thursday it was not yet clear why a regional jet crashed into a U.S. Army helicopter at a Washington airport, killing 67 people in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in more than 20 years.
At least 28 bodies were pulled from the icy waters of the Potomac River after the helicopter apparently flew into the path of the jet late Wednesday while it was landing.