Recovery crews are now awaiting heavy machinery, including cranes, from the Army Corps of Engineers, Coast Guard and private contractors before they can extract additional victims, sources familiar with the operation told ABC News.

President Donald Trump was already in the midst of a moment like when Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers as a deadly aviation disaster struck. Except Trump was trying to remind federal employees who is the boss much more broadly than Reagan was as he stared down an illegal strike.

The deadly mid-air collision over Washington, D.C., has reignited concerns over air traffic congestion and safety risks at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, a tightly packed aviation hub that shares airspace with military and government flights.

An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, with no survivors. Sixty-four people were on board the plane, which departed from Wichita, Kansas. Three soldiers were on the helicopter.

"Are we just gonna blame Black and brown people for everything that happens for the next four years?" Jones queried after Trump's remarks.

Leaders across the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia region, as well as federal lawmakers, are reacting to the tragic American Airlines plane crash near DCA.

The National Transportation Safety Board said the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the American Airlines jet that collided with the Black Hawk helicopter have been recovered from the wreckage in the Potomac River and are now at the NTSB labs for evaluation.

There are likely no survivors after an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter crashed midair near Washington, D.C, Wednesday evening, officials have said.Flight 5342 from Kansas was on the final approach to Ronald Reagan National Airport when it collided with the Black Hawk helicopter before exploding a huge fireball.

Sixty-seven people died in a collision between a Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet operated by PSA Airlines and a military Black Hawk helicopter.

Ronald Reagan kept formalities brief and stayed warm after parade attendees were warned their flesh would freeze

President Donald Trump redecorated the Oval Office with many of the same artifacts from his first White House term.

Extraordinary video captured the moment a fireball exploded in the sky as an aircraft crashed into a blackhawk helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington Airport.