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A US passenger plane carrying 64 people crashed into Washington DC’s freezing Potomac River after a collision with a military helicopter. READ MORE: https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda... American Airlines flight 5342 had been about to land at the nearby Reagan National Airport after flying from Kansas when it hit the Black Hawk helicopter on a nighttime training exercise on Wednesday. The crash occurred at 8.48pm prompting a major emergency response with divers, fireboats, and helicopters searching for survivors in the frigid water. The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered the grounding of all planes at Reagan National airport. It is not due to reopen until 11am (4pm UK time) on Thursday. American Airlines’ chief executive issued a video statement in which he expressed “deep sorrow”, while the Kansas senator Roger Marshall said the collision was “nothing short of a nightmare”. The same airport was the scene of a deadly crash in January 1982 when Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737, crashed into the Potomac shortly after taking off. Seventy-eight people died. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... Find us on Facebook:   / timesandsundaytimes   Find us on Twitter:   / thetimes   Find us on Instagram:   / thetimes   #livestream #americanairlines #washingtondc #planecrash