President Donald Trump on Thursday morning spoke about the midair collision that occurred Wednesday evening near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport at a press conference at the White House.
The collision just outside of Washington, D.C., involved a regional jet operating as an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, and an Army UH-60 helicopter on a training flight that originated at Davison Army Airfield in Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
According to the District of Columbia fire chief, a recovery operation is being conducted in the Potomac River, but there are likely no survivors of the crash.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
