A massive search operation is underway after a passenger aircraft carrying 64 people collided midair with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, DC, according to aviation and defense officials. About 300 first responders are searching the freezing Potomac River, where the aircraft crashed, the DC fire chief said.
Rescue efforts are ongoing, but no survivors have been pulled from the water yet, source says. More than 60 people were on board two aircrafts.
Reagan National Airport will be closed until at least 11 a.m. ET Thursday, Jack Potter, the president and CEO of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, said at a news conference.
There is no impact to the Washington area’s other airport, Dulles International Airport, he said.
