Associated Press: All passenger passengers died
“Despite the surveillance operation, officials believe that all passenger plane has been killed,” the US News agency reported.
According to RCO News Agency, a passenger aircraft owned by American Airlines hit a US military helicopter near Reagan Airport this morning.
Following the accident, all the airport’s entrance and exit flights were suspended and fire boats were dispatched to the crash of the passenger plane.
But despite the continuation of the surveillance operation, the US News Agency reported that “at least five bodies have been pulled out of the icy waters of the Potomak River.”
“The authorities are looking for possible survivors and other people, but they believe there will be no survivors,” the US news agency quoted US officials as saying.
This is the deadliest air accident in the United States in the last five years.
The carcass of the aircraft was found upside down in three parts in the depth of the water. The carcass of the helicopter has also been found.
A senior FBI official told NBC Network so far no signs of terrorism.
US President Donald Trump wrote in response to the accident on the social network: “It is bad and it looks like we could prevent it. Not good! ”
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegst announced on Thursday the “urgent investigation” launches to investigate the cause of the collision of a US military aircraft and helicopter in Washington, DC.
Hegest said the investigation was carried out by the US Department of Defense and Defense.
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