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A passenger jet carrying 64 people crashed into Washington’s Potomac River on Wednesday after colliding midair with a military helicopter, with US media reporting multiple bodies pulled from the dark, near-freezing water.
A massive search and rescue operation was in progress, with divers visible in the glare of powerful lights as they plunged into the snow-lined Potomac to scour the wreckage of both aircraft.
Washington Fire Chief John Donnelly told a press briefing that emergency crews, totalling about 300 people, were working in “extremely rough” conditions and gave little indication they expected to find anyone alive.
“We’re going to be out there as long as it takes,” Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters.
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