Officials say the conditions of the Potomac River are complicating recovery efforts of the bodies of the 67 presumed dead in a mid-air collision between American Airlines flight 5342 from Wichita and a military Black Hawk helicopter.

Some 300 first responders are enduring dark, cold and windy conditions as they continue to execute “a rescue operation” in Potomac River after an American Airlines jet collided with a military helicopter, officials said Thursday.

Air Traffic Control (ATC) audio from Wednesday’s collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet reveals the moments before and after controllers witnessed the disaster unfold.

An American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday. The Potomac River has an average depth of 24 feet. As of 11 p.m. EDT,

Officials reported Thursday that all individuals aboard the American Airlines jet, which collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night over Washington, D.C., are feared dead.

The crash and rescue on the icy river connecting Washington, DC and Virginia had similarities to this one. Five of the 79 aboard the flight survived.

In what could prove to be the worst American aviation disaster in decades, a small regional jet carrying around 50 passengers collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over Ronald Reagan airpor.

D.C. Water is dropping crews and a 14-ton drilling rig just north of Great Falls in Virginia to gather samples for a future sewer project.

I don’t know of any other accident that has had this amount of impact on aviation but also in other industries,” one expert said of the 1982 crash.

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