The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is leading the removal effort, which will first focus on retrieving the mangled passenger plane before turning to the helicopter and its associated debris.

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Rev. Dr. Pamela Hughes Mason of the St. Paul A.M.E. church shares her words of wisdom, after leading a prayer service in Wichita for those impacted by the deadly plane crash in Washington, D.C.

The NTSB held a briefing on the American Airlines plane crash with an Army helicopter on Wednesday. At 8.45pm on Wednesday ...

Premium Washington DC Plane Crash Highlights: U.S. Coast Guard, along with other search and rescue teams, operate near debris at the crash site (Taylor Bacon/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout via Reuters ...

The regional jet that crashed in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night has gone through three other in-flight incidents before ...

The Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines plane was alerted to the plane’s presence by air control twice, the first time at least two minutes before the deadly crash ...

Six passengers of a medical jet and one person on the ground were killed after the plane crashed in a Philadelphia neighborhood on Friday evening, officials said. Hospitals in the city report at ...

The Skating Club of Boston CEO Doug Zeghibe pointed out the parallels in the 1961 plane crash and the collision on Wednesday, ...

29. Investigators are still working to learn what went wrong on a clear evening when the passenger plane was just a few hundred feet from landing at Reagan Washington National Airport. Officials ...

Philadelphia Plane Crash Video: A fireball crashing down with a burst of light covering the area. A small airplane carrying a pediatric patient and five others crashed in Philadelphia today ...

A medical ambulance plane transporting a young girl who had just received life-saving treatment crashed on a street Friday night near the Roosevelt Mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jet Rescue ...