WASHINGTON: Sixty-seven people died after an American Airlines regional passenger jet collided with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the frigid Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport late on Wednesday, officials said.
The Bombardier jet operated by an American Airlines subsidiary, had been carrying 64 people, while the army Blackhawk helicopter had three soldiers aboard. Wreckage of both the jet and the helicopter was in the river, as police divers searched for more bodies under water.
“At this point we do not believe there were any survivors,” District of Columbia fire chief John Donnelly said at a Thursday press confere
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