The wreckage of a military helicopter involved in a mid-air collision with a passenger jet that killed all 67 people on both aircraft was recovered Thursday from the Potomac River, federal officials said.
Additional parts were also recovered from the American Airlines plane that was bound for Reagan National Airport when it struck the UH-60 Black Hawk on Jan. 29, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement.
The wreckage recovered Thursday will be offloaded to a barge and taken to a secure location. The effort to find the right engine and tail rotor from the Black Hawk continues, the agency said.
Salvage crews recover wreckage of a Black Hawk helicopter in the Potomac River in Arlington, Va., on Feb. 2.
The development came two days after officials said they had recovered all 67 victims, including many on the plane who were returning from a training camp that followed the 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas.
U.S. Figure Skating said that 28 people on board the flight were connected to the sport.
The helicopter had three on board and was on a training mission from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, officials have said.
The NTSB is working to determine the cause of the collision.
Authorities with the NTSB, in coordination with SUPSALV, recover the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, along the Potomac River, in Arlington, Va., on Feb. 6, 2025.
The agency said Tuesday that the air traffic control display showed that at the time of the collision, the helicopter appeared to be flying at 300 feet, or 100 feet above the 200 foot ceiling generally required under federal aviation rules.
The board said it needed additional information from the Black Hawk wreckage to verify its flight track data.
The plane’s two “black boxes” — a flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder — were recovered and are being evaluated at a lab, the NTSB said last week.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
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