Flight recorders have not yet been recovered but the NTSB is "comfortable and confident" that the recorders will be recovered, Inman said. Search and rescue efforts are seen around a wreckage site in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport,

A passenger jet collided with a helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River.

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.

Officials do not believe anyone survived the midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a military helicopter over Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night.

PMBlack boxes from American Airlines plane recovered: SourceThe flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder -- known as black boxes -- from the American Airlines plane have been recovered and are en route to the National Transportation Safety Board lab,

A military helicopter collided with an American Airlines flight over the US capital of Washington, DC. There are not believed to be any survivors.

Donald Trump spoke in the wake of the midair American Airlines plane crash, which happened in Washington DC on Wednesday night and saw more than 60 people killed

Midair collision between American Airlines jet and US Army helicopter at Reagan National Airport leaves unknown number of fatalities.

There were no survivors after a collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near Washington, D

After Trump's inauguration on Jan 20, he quickly repealed Biden administration's DEI policies, saying that he will end the government policy of "trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life," and "forge a society that is colorblind and merit based."