The Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines commuter plane near Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia Wednesday was on a “training flight” when they crashed into the Potomac River, according to the military service branch.

Sixty-seven people are presumed dead after a commercial aircraft collided with a military helicopter in Washington, D.C. near Reagan Washington National Airport on Jan. 29. The midair collision between the American Airlines passenger jet and Black Hawk military helicopter occurred shortly before 9 p.