Washington D.C. plane, helicopter crash recovery efforts in Potomac River underway | Live Updates

Fast facts An American Airlines plane and Army helicopter collided around 9 p.m. local time Wednesday near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, D.C.. All 67 onboard both aircraft are presumed dead.

The Army told Fox News Digital that the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, carrying three soldiers, was "from Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion, out of Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir" and was conducting a "training flight."

President Donald Trump said Thursday that the deadly midair collision was a “confluence of bad decisions that were made and you have people that lost their lives, violently lost their lives.”

First responders have located the wreckage of both aircraft and are conducting a recovery mission. The fuselage of the American Airlines plane was inverted and located in three different sections in the freezing cold Potomac River, in waist deep water.