Salvage crews are working tirelessly to recover the remains of the victims and the wreckage of the aircraft involved in the fatal mid-air collision near Washington, D.C. The investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing.
Crews worked Tuesday to recover the plane's cockpit and the remains of the 67 people who died in the midair collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C ., last week. The work is dependent on weather conditions in the Potomac River, where the aircraft crashed. As of Tuesday morning, salvage teams were raising another large piece of the plane. The National Transportation Safety Board is expected to give an update later Tuesday.
Authorities have recovered and identified 55 of the 67 victims and are confident they will find all of them. The focus is first on the jet. Colonel Francis B. Pera of the Army Corps of Engineers said that on Monday, crews were able to pull one of the two jet engines from the river along with large pieces of the plane's exterior. They were also working to recover a wing. The American Airlines flight, which originated in Wichita, Kansas, had 60 passengers and four crew members on board, including figure skaters returning from the 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. The Black Hawk helicopter was on a training mission. On board were Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Austin O'Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Georgia; Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, of Great Mills, Maryland; and Captain Rebecca M. Lobach, of Durham, North Carolina. Federal investigators are working to understand the events leading to the collision. Full investigations typically take a year or more, but investigators hope to have a preliminary report within 30 days. Wednesday's crash was the deadliest in the U.S. since November 12, 2001, when a jet crashed into a New York City neighborhood shortly after takeoff, killing all 260 people on board and five on the ground
MID-AIR COLLISION FATAL CRASH WASHINGTON D.C AMERICAN AIRLINES BLACK HAWK HELICOPTER NTSB INVESTIGATION RECOVERY EFFORTS
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