Police said 18 bodies of victims of the American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 plane crash with the Black Hawk helicopter were found.

Reuters told CBS News that a team of divers found one of two data recorders, called a black box, from an airplane. The plane crashed on the Potomac river near Washington's Reagan Airport, USA after colliding with a Black Hawk helicopter in the air

Two sources told Reuters that several bodies had been evacuated from the river.

The collision in the air occurred when a passenger jet, which was traveling from far away in Kansas, was about to land at Reagan. Radio communications between the air traffic control tower and Black Hawk show the helicopter crew knowing the plane is around the site.

Dozens of people are feared to have died after the American Airlines regional passenger jet with 64 people on board and the US Army Black Hawk helicopter collided and crashed on the very cold Potomac River near Washington's Reagan National Airport.

Officials did not mention the death toll in Wednesday night's collision, but US Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas suspects most of it, if not entirely, the plane's passengers were killed.

"It's very difficult when you may lose more than 60 Kansan residents simultaneously," he said at a press conference at Reagan airport in the US capital on Thursday morning local time.

When one person dies, it is a tragedy, but when many, many, many die, it is unbearable sadness. It is an unexpected heartbreak," continued.

American Airlines confirmed 60 passengers and four crew members were on the jet. The helicopter, which was on a training flight, brought three soldiers, a US official said.


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