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At least 28 bodies were pulled from the icy waters of the Potomac River after the helicopter apparently flew into the path of the jet late Wednesday while it was landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport, just across the river from Washington, officials said. The plane carried 60 passengers and four crew. Three soldiers were aboard the helicopter.

One air traffic controller was doing work normally assigned to two people in the tower at Reagan National when the collision happened, according to a report by the Federal Aviation Administration obtained by The Associated Press.

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President Donald Trump said in a White House news conference that no one survived.

Trump says helicopter should have seen plane

Trump initially struck a somber tone at a White House news conference on Thursday morning following Wednesday night's deadly plane-helicopter crash near Washington Reagan National Airport.

Trump began the briefing with a moment of silence for the 67 victims and their families. "We're all searching for answers," he said.

However, the president then attacked previous administrations under Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden for allegedly lowering standards for people hired as air traffic controllers because of "diversity, equity and inclusion" initiatives that he has banned from federal government since taking office.

"We don't know that necessarily it was the controller's fault," Trump said, after also questioning why the pilot of the Army helicopter did not see and avoid the incoming plane on "a very clear night."

"The turn it made was not the correct turn," he said of the helicopter.

Trump said, "The people in the helicopter should have seen where they were going." He added: "The helicopter obviously was in the wrong place at the wrong time and a tragedy occurred."

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, in his first test after the Senate confirmed him last week, followed the president and said, "No excuses. We're going to get to the bottom of this."

"Tragically last night, a mistake was made," Hegseth said.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and other Senate Democrats put the blame on Trump, asserting that he undermined federal oversight of aviation security.

During a news conference to protest backroom deliberations by Republicans over Trump's nominee for budget director, Kaine said Trump had stripped the membership of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, created in 1988 after the PanAm Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Kaine also recalled his questioning of Russell Vought, Trump's nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget, over a speech in which Vought said he wanted to put federal employees "into trauma."

He asked Vought then, "You don't want federal air traffic controllers to go to the airport traumatized, do you, Mr. Vought?"

Vought said he did not, but Kaine returned to the exchange on Thursday morning, after the fatal crash.

"We just did a bill to try to bulk up the nation's air traffic controllers because we've been short of air traffic controllers, and now the Russ Vought strategy is to try to traumatize the federal workforce," the senator said. "That lands particularly hard with me this morning."

Virginia leaders express sorrow, seek answers

Virginia's leaders are expressing sorrow and pledging to seek answers following聽聽near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Officials said Thursday morning that a rescue effort had become a recovery effort and that all 67 people aboard the two aircraft are feared dead.

American Airlines Flight 5342, a regional jet coming from Wichita Kansas, had 60 passengers and four crew members. The Blackhawk helicopter, based at Fort Belvioir, had three crew members.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin said on NBC's "Today" Show that from what he has learned the plane appeared to be making a normal approach before the deadly crash around 9 p.m. Wednesday.

"This聽flight from Wichita to D.C. was making a normal approach and what I've been told is everything was normal. Of course, it wasn't," Youngkin said.

"This tragic collision which brought down both aircrafts into the Potomac, with the American Airlines flight inverting in the river, brought down with it tragically 60 passengers, four crew from the American Airlines flight and three crew from the military helicopter."

Youngkin said that "notwithstanding the heroic actions from the first responders overnight" involving rescue personnel from Virginia, D.C., Maryland, the Coast Guard and other federal resources, there is the "just heart-breaking reality this morning" that "they've had to move from rescue to recovery."

He said the National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation "with our full cooperation and support."

"We've pledged everything," he told Fox News in one of a series of televised interviews after he arrived at Reagan-National on Thursday morning.

Youngkin said he has spoken with Robert Isom, CEO of American Airlines.

"They're going through the painful process of contacting families and crew members," Youngkin said. "They said they've gotten to a little more than half of all the families already as of this morning."

Youngkin said he also has spoken with Jennifer L. Homendy, the chairwoman of the NTSB.

"They are doing, of course, the very, very difficult task of, one, supporting these families because they're on point, but also starting the investigation which is so important to find out what happened."

Kaine and U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., attended a news conference Thursday morning near the crash site, along with Rep. Don Beyer, D-8th, and Virginia Secretary of Transportation Shep Miller.

Kaine said his first reaction is sorrow for the victims, thanks for the first responders and questions about how the crash could have happened.

"There are going to be a lot of questions, obviously, a lot of questions," Kaine said. "And that's what NTSB's job is, is to be an independent investigator of incidents like this."

He added: "It's not a time to speculate. It's a time to investigate and get answers to the questions that we need, and I have confidence that will be done."

Warner expressed condolences and noted how authorities from the federal government, Virginia, Maryland and Washington quickly responded.

"When tragedy happens, all of those distinctions between the various jurisdictions and our federal partners all disappear."

Volume of traffic at National

In 2023, Kaine and Warner opposed legislation to loosen restrictions on the number of planes allowed to fly in and out of Reagan National.

A coalition of airlines and localities in the western and southwestern U.S. had lobbied for 28 new slots 鈥� or 14 round-trip long-distance flights in an out of National, over the strong opposition from representatives in Virginia and Maryland. They argued that adding the flights at National would compromise safety and hurt operations at Washington Dullles International Airport in Loudoun County. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which oversees both airports, opposed the additional flights.

Ultimately, Congress added five round-trip flights at Reagan National in the five-year reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration last year. The additional flights were to and from San Antonio, Seattle, San Diego, Las Vegas and San Francisco. American Airlines operates the new flights to and from San Antonio.

"Yes, this is a crowded air space, but it's a safe air space," Youngkin said Thursday in the "Today" interview. "Air travel in the United States is the safest air travel in the world and we just need to understand what happened in this circumstance."

The governor commended Reagan National for diverting 19 flights to Dulles, which he said stayed open late to receive them, along with the Washington Metro transit system.

Airlines diverted two flights overnight from Reagan National to Richmond International Airport, airport spokesman Troy Bell said

The Richmond airport did not have a passenger count, Bell said.

The airport makes cots and water available as airlines work on other assistance, including ground transportation.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.