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More than 60 passengers and crew members are feared dead after an American Airlines regional airplane collided with a military helicopter in Washington, D.C., Wednesday night, plunging both craft into the frigid Potomac River.
“We’re praying,” said U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (Kan.).
The tragedy involved a regional plane, American Airlines Flight 5342, that was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members as it approached Reagan National Airport (DCA) for landing en route from Wichita, Kan. (ICT). Law enforcement said it collided with a Black Hawk helicopter carrying three passengers on a training mission. The plane was a Bombardier CRJ700. All 67 are feared dead.
Some 300 rescuers combed the river Wednesday night and Thursday morning, searching for survivors. None have been found.
U.S Figure Skating said members of its community were on board.
“When one person dies, it’s a tragedy, but when many, many, many people die, it’s an unbearable sorrow. It’s a heartbreak beyond measure,” U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas said at a late-night news conference.
“I want the folks back home to just know that we care, that we love them, and that this is a time when we’ll have to join arms…
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