1 day ago · Salvage crews worked on the Potomac River on Thursday and could be seen pulling out pieces of the Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed with a plane. ... Philadelphia news 24/7: Watch NBC10 free ...

5 days ago · "Lifting operations" to remove wreckage from the Potomac River will begin tomorrow, D.C. Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly said this evening. “While that’s going on, the local teams will ...

19 hours ago · The wreckage tumbled into the icy Potomac River and all 67 people on board the flights — 60 passengers and four crew members on the American Eagle jetliner, and three people onboard the military ...

The Potomac River runs 405 mi (652 km) from Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park in West Virginia on the Allegheny Plateau to Point Lookout, Maryland, and drains 14,679 sq mi (38,020 km 2). The length of the river from the junction of its North and South Branches to Point Lookout is 302 mi (486 km). [4]

On January 29, 2025, a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter collided mid-air with American Airlines Flight 5342 (operated by PSA Airlines as American Eagle), [a] a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner, over the Potomac River, about half a mile (800 m) short of runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.All 67 people aboard the two aircraft were ...

3 days ago · All 67 victims killed in the helicopter and plane collision have been recovered from the Potomac River, the Unified Command announced Tuesday. Sixty-six of the remains have been positively identified.

Deadly plane crash in D.C.'s Potomac River after midair collision with helicopter

5 days ago · The bodies of 55 out of 67 victims killed when a plane and helicopter crashed near Reagan National Airport have been recovered from the Potomac River, officials said in a press conference Sunday.

6 days ago · Recovery crews and divers searched the Potomac River for remains and cleared wreckage Saturday from the midair collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter that killed 67 people. Philadelphia ...

The Pennsylvania "Dutch" migrating west and south of Philadelphia brought new titheables into Virginia from the north. To them, the Potomac River was a barrier to be crossed at fords, a minor barrier to travel rather than a transportation pathway. They crossed the river and walked up the Shenandoah Valley.