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- Washington, DC, Fire Chief John Donnelly believes there are no survivors as he says 28 bodies have been recovered from the Potomac River after an American Airlines passenger plane collided in midair with a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport outside Washington, DC, in the US.
- “We are now at a point where we’re switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation,” Donnelly said after several hours of a massive search-and-rescue operation in the river, which borders the airport.
- American Airlines says 60 passengers and four crew members were on board the plane, which was arriving at the airport just outside Washington, DC, from Wichita, Kansas. Three people were on the military helicopter, according to the Washington, DC, mayor.
- US and Russian figure skaters, including world champion couple Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were on board the crashed plane.