A jet with 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army helicopter while approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., sending the two aircraft plummeting into the Potomac River. Everyone on board the two aircraft is feared dead, officials said Thursday, according to The Associated Press.

Alan Diehl, an aviation safety consultant, says federal investigators will examine many possible factors in the mid-air collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport, including the role of fatigue, night vision goggles and nearby aircraft.

President Donald Trump is suggesting that the Federal Aviation Administration’s diversity efforts has made air travel less safe. The president asserted his opinion in a news conference, even though the crash has yet to be fully investigated.

DC fire chief John Donnelly says no survivors were expected to be found from a midair collision between an American Airlines jet, with 64 on board, and an Army helicopter. Donnelly says the operation was switching “to a recovery operation.”

An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C.

Less than 30 seconds before the crash, an air traffic controller asks the helicopter if it has the arriving plane in sight: “PAT-25, do you have the CRJ in sight?” The controller makes another radio call to PAT25 moments later: “PAT-25 pass behind the CRJ.”

National Transportation Safety Board to investigate a midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight from Kansas that killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft.