Investigation Underway as Divers Search for 67 Killed When Passenger Jet, Blackhawk Helicopter Collide at Reagan National Airport

Emergency crews pull dozens of bodies out of the Potomac River in the first commercial airplane crash in America since 2009.

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Emergency response teams including Washington, DC Fire and EMS, DC Police and others, respond to helicopter wreckage in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport January 30, 2025 at Arlington, Virginia. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

The devastating mid-air collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter has left recovery teams scrambling to locate the bodies of all 67 people believed to have been killed in the grim crash.

“We are at a point where this has gone from a rescue operation to a recovery operation,” John Donnelly, Chief of Washington, DC Fire Department and Emergency Services said during an early morning press conference at Reagan National Airport. “At this point, we don’t believe there are any survivors.”

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