Officials revealed Tuesday that rescue personnel have successfully recovered all 67 victims from the wreckage of a tragic mid-air crash over the Potomac River, which occurred over a week ago.
Authorities are still investigating how the two planes got on a collision path in the fatal disaster, which featured an American Airlines airplane and an Army Black Hawk chopper.
With the final victims recovered, attention turns to the removal of the wreckage. According to CNN, the fatal event included a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.
On a training trip and a Bombardier CRJ700 aircraft flying as American Airlines Flight 5342. Now that every victim is back on their feet,
Focus shifts to cleaning up the river’s residual debris, a laborious and long process made more difficult by the harsh winter weather. Recovery crews pulled further fragments of the crashed.