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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Occasionally, helicopters can be seen over the Potomac River rescuing people stranded on the rocks, but it’s rare see a helicopter putting people on them. That’s exactly what is happening this ...

Rescue crews will return to the Potomac River on Friday morning as they continue searching for victims of Wednesday night’s deadly midair collision.

The Bombardier and Black Hawk helicopter accident echoes another equally tragic incident that occurred in 1982. Of the 84 plane passengers, only five survived. The Bombardier and Black Hawk helicopter accident that crashed into the Potomac River in front of Washington brings echoes of another tragedy,

In seconds, the wreckage of each aircraft plunged into the icy Potomac River, the victims with it. All perished

Investigators recovered the so-called black boxes from the plane, an American Airlines Bombardier jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members, which collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River as it prepared to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night.

Wednesday’s fatal collision and two other incidents dramatically illustrate the challenges pilots and air traffic controllers face in the complex, security-sensitive skies above the nation’s capital.