WASHINGTON, February 5. /TASS/. US divers managed to locate and recover the bodies of all 67 victims killed in the latest plane crash in the US capital of Washington, CBS reported.
The bodies were found when the crashed plane’s tail and nose were lifted from the bed of the Potomac River. By now, 66 bodies have already been identified.
An American Airlines passenger plane and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening local time. The passenger flight traveling from Kansas was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members, and there were at least three US Army soldiers on board the military chopper. The passenger plane split apart and came to rest in the Potomac River.
Members of the US junior figure skating team were on board the passenger plane that crashed in Washington, D.C., The Wichita Eagle reported. Russia’s 1994 world champions in figure skating, Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, as well as Inna Volyanskaya, who won a bronze medal at the 1980 USSR Championships, were on board the flight, too, a source told TASS.
US President Donald Trump confirmed that there were Russian nationals among those killed. The US has already been in contact with Russia and will facilitate the transfer of their remains home, he said.