Loudoun County and Fairfax County public school systems says multiple victims in the Potomac River plane crash Wednesday night were community members. Neither school system provided names of the deceased,

We are now at the point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation,” said John Donnelly, the fire chief in the nation’s capital.

Search efforts continue after an American Airlines plane from Wichita, with 64 people on board, collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River.

American Airlines has canceled all flights to Washington, D.C., from Norfolk International Airport. Impacted D.C. flights are being rerouted to Richmond. "Our hearts are broken for the families who must now process the grief of such a sudden and unexpected death," wrote Winsome Sears on X.

Crews working to retrieve the passengers of the American Airlines jet and the army helicopter that collided and crashed into the Potomac on Wednesday night have to contend with the dangerously cold waters of the Potomac River.

D.C. Water is dropping crews and a 14-ton drilling rig just north of Great Falls in Virginia to gather samples for a future sewer project.

Emergency response units conduct search and rescue operations in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on Jan. 29, 2025 in Washington, D.C. An American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a helicopter while approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)

Sixty-seven people are believed dead following Wednesday night’s crash between a commercial jet and an Army helicopter from Fort Belvoir.

American Eagle Flight 5342 en route from Wichita, Kansas (ICT), to Washington, D.C. (DCA) was involved in an accident at DCA,” the airline said in a statement.

The rare circular ice slabs spun, collided and collected in large eddies because of the prolonged cold weather.

Sixty-seven people are believed dead following Wednesday night’s crash between a commercial jet and an Army helicopter from Fort Belvoir.