Operations to salvage the wreckage from a deadly collision between a US Army helicopter and a passenger jet continued Sunday as rescuers said 55 victims had so far been identified, SİA informs via France24.
Dozens of victims have been pulled from the icy Potomac River, and rescuers voiced confidence that those remaining would be retrieved in the massive operation to recover the plane that collided in midair with a Black Hawk military helicopter.
Washington fire chief John Donnelly said human remains of some of the 67 people killed in the crash had been found as efforts were made to lift the fuselage of the plane, adding that they were taken to the medical examiner.
"Tomorrow there'll be some lifting operations on the wreckage that's in the water," he told a briefing Sunday.
"So far, 55 victims have been positively identified...from this accident," he added.
Some 200 vessels were involved with the recovery and salvage efforts, the Coast Guard said.
"We will absolutely stay here and search until such point as we have everybody," Donnelly said.
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