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DC plane crash live updates: Investigators comb through wreckage for clues

All 67 people on board the plane and the helicopter were killed in the crash.

Last Updated: February 6, 2025, 4:43 PM EST

Hundreds of families are in mourning after an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Jan. 29, with both aircraft plunging into the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C.

No one survived.

Sixty-four people were on board the plane, which departed from Wichita, Kansas. Three soldiers were on the helicopter.

Feb 03, 2025, 3:48 PM EST

2 arrested over leaked video of crash

Two Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority employees were arrested in connection with a leaked CNN exclusive surveillance video showing the plane and helicopter collision.

The employees were charged with computer trespass for allegedly making an unauthorized copy of Airports Authority records.

-ABC News’ Sam Sweeney

Feb 03, 2025, 1:08 PM EST

Army Corps of Engineers shares photos of jet engine removal

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Baltimore district shared two images of the wreckage removal at the Potomac River.

Both images show the jet engine from American Airlines Flight 5342 being pulled out of the Potomac on a crane.

-ABC News’ Ayesha Ali

Feb 03, 2025, 12:22 PM EST

Fuselage removed from Potomac

The downed plane’s fuselage has been lifted out of the Potomac River.

A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the river, in Arlington, Va., Feb. 3, 2025.
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

A large portion of the damaged plane fuselage is lifted from the Potomac River during recovery efforts after the American Airlines crash on Feb. 03, 2025 in Arlington, Va.
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Feb 03, 2025, 10:29 AM EST

Crane removes plane part from Potomac

Photographers were on scene Monday morning as a crane removed a piece of the plane from the Potomac River.

A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the Potomac River, in Arlington, Va., Feb. 3, 2025.
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the Potomac River, in Arlington, Va., Feb. 3, 2025.
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

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