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Live updates: Washington plane crash

  • NPR
A boat works the scene in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport early Thursday morning.

 Michael A. McCoy / For NPR

A boat works the scene in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport early Thursday morning.

Officials say 28 bodies have been recovered so far after a regional passenger jet carrying 64 people collided in midair with a Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night. The plane was approaching a runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

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