BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (CBS) -- The plane that crashed into the Potomac River near Washington, D.C. after colliding in midair with a Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night was transporting some passengers returning home from a development camp held in connection with the U.S. Figure Skating championships.
CBS News has independently confirmed one air traffic controller was doing the job normally handled by two when a passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter collided in midair Wednesday night and crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport and Washington,
Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are feared dead as a recovery mission is underway.
The figure skating community is very small and tight-knit, and Chicago area skaters who were also at the championship in Kansas are now mourning some of the athletes they competed against who died in the DC plane crash.
More than 30 bodies have been recovered, two sources told NBC News, and a frantic search and rescue mission to find crash victims in the icy Potomac river remains underway.
Investigators say there are likely no survivors in the deadly aircraft collision that occurred Wednesday evening above the icy waters of the Potomac river.
Wednesday night’s crash of an American Airlines commuter plane in Washington could be one of the worst disasters for the Fort Worth-based airline in more than two decades.
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Members of the U.S. Figure skating community were among those on an American Airlines flight Wednesday that collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter at Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington, U.S. Figure Skating said in a statement.
Wednesday night’s crash of an American Airlines commuter plane in Washington is one of the worst disasters for the Fort Worth-based airline in more than two decades.