Rescue and salvage crews are continuing to dig out bodies and debris in the Potomac River, after the deadliest air crash in two decades.
Rescue and salvage crews work near the wreckage of an American Airlines jet in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Sunday in Arlington, Va.
Officials have recovered the bodies of 55 of the 67 victims killed after an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane"It's my belief that we're going to recover everyone," said D.C. Fire Chief John Donnelly during a Sunday briefing on the victim recovery efforts and debris removal. Divers are still searching the frigid Potomac River for the remains of 12 people. The waterway remains closed to unauthorized vessels.All 64 people aboard AA Flight 5342 and all three people in the Black Hawk helicopter were killed the Wednesday night collision, the"Our goal is to really lift as much as we can, given the fact that we are also accounting for the human remains component," said Col. Francis Pera of the Army Corps of Engineers.
The NTSB said Saturday that the airplane — an inbound flight from Wichita approaching one of DCA's three runways — was 325 feet in the air, give or take 25 feet, at the time of impact. Early information suggests the Army helicopter was flying above 200 feet, the maximum allowed altitude for the path it was on, according to the independent federal agency.
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