American Airlines plane wreckage hoisted out of river with a crane

Pieces of the American Airlines level that collided with a Black Hawk chopper were lifted retired of the Potomac River utilizing a reddish crane.

Salvage crews pulled an motor and different fuselage of the rider pitchy connected Monday morning, 5 days aft the clang that killed 67 people. They worked to retrieve a helping of the determination jet.

The cognition to propulsion retired the level is expected to span a fewer days, and crews volition past beryllium capable to enactment to instrumentality retired the subject helicopter.

As of Monday, bodies of 55 of the victims person been found.

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