Over 300 personnel have been pressed into search and rescue operations in the freezing waters of the Potomac River after an American Airlines jet carrying 64 people collided with a US Army helicopter ...

Collision of jet with 64 passengers and crew members with Army helicopter was ‘absolutely preventable’, says US transportation secretary.

Crews were still searching for other casualties but did not believe there were any survivors, which would make it the deadliest US air crash in nearly 24 years.

An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday ...