President Trump announced on Thursday that the White House will release the names of the victims of the deadly accident that happened on Wednesday night in coordination with American Airlines.
Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are feared dead as a recovery mission is underway.
All 64 people aboard an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter were feared dead in what was likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a quarter century, officials said Thursday.
An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair with an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday.
An American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport and crashed into the Potomac River, according to officials.
The midair collision between an American Airlines flight and the military helicopter involved 67 people and is not expected to have any survivors.
Trump appeared to resume the role of blamer-in-chief in the aftermath of Thursday's fatal plane crash, surveying the tragedy as just another American citizen asking questions, rather than as the leader of a nation dealing with its first commercial air disaster in 15 years.
Trump said the Federal Aviation Administration, National Transportation and Safety Board and the U.S. military will carry out a "systematic and comprehensive investigation."
President Donald Trump said the cause for the crash involving an American Airlines plane and military aircraft has yet to be determined Thursday during a White House press conference.
An American Airlines regional jet collided with a military helicopter as it was approaching Reagan National Airport.
A grainy snippet of video footage taken in the dark of night, seemingly by an airport CCTV camera, appears to show the fatal mid-air collision of an American Airlines passenger plane and a military Black Hawk helicopter.
A recovery operation and investigation is underway in Washington, D.C., after an American Airlines flight from Kansas and Black Hawk helicopter crashed midair and into the Potomac River. Authorities said all 64 aboard the flight are feared dead.