Many feared de.ad after passenger jet and helicopter collide

Scores of people were feared de.ad after an American Airlines regional passenger jet with 64 people on board and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided and crashed into the frigid Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport

Officials did not provide a de.ath toll from Wednesday night’s collision but U.S. Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas, where the flight originated, suggested most if not all those on board had been k!lled.

“It’s really hard when you lose probably over 60 Kansans simultaneously,” he told a press conference at Reagan airport in the nation’s capital early on Thursday.

“When one person dies, it’s a tragedy, but when many, many, many people d!e, it’s an unbearable sorrow. It’s a heartbreak beyond measure.”

Jack Potter, the president and CEO of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, said first responders were in “rescue mode.”

American Airlines confirmed 60 passengers and four crew members were aboard the jet. The helicopter, on a training flight, was carrying three soldiers, a U.S. official said.

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