Search-and-recovery efforts continued into the night for the midair crash between an Army helicopter and a commercial airliner near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday.
There were 64 people, including four crew members, aboard American Airlines Flight 5342 and three soldiers aboard the Black Hawk Sikorsky H-60. All are believed to be dead. Flights at Reagan airport were grounded, officials said, and the airport will reportedly remain closed until at least 11 a.m.
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