An American Airlines regional passenger jet carrying 64 people collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport. Scores of people are feared dead, with over 30 bodies recovered from the river. The flight originated in Wichita, Kansas, and included passengers who were ice skaters returning from events. A dive team recovered one of the plane's black boxes. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident.
WASHINGTON : Scores of people were feared dead after an American Airlines regional passenger jet carrying 64 people collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the frigid Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport.
"When one person dies, it's a tragedy, but when many, many, many people die, it's an unbearable sorrow. It's a heartbreak beyond measure." CBS News reported that a dive team had recovered one of the two data recorders, the so-called black boxes, from the plane. "PAT25, do you have a CRJ in sight? PAT25, pass behind the CRJ," an air traffic controller says at 8:47 p.m. , according to a recording on liveatc.net.
Russian media said Shishkova and Naumov, who were married and working as coaches, were returning from Wichita with a group of young skaters. Russia's Mash news outlet published a list of 13 skaters, many of them the children of Russian emigres to the U.S., who it said were believed to have been on the plane.
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