Black Hawk involved in collision that killed 67 people recovered from Potomac River

Jennifer HomendynTSB chair

I would hope it would be much less than that,

Homendy said

He was just the greatest guy who made everybody happy all the time,

Lynne Southmayd, a former flight attendant, told WBTV

Jennifer HomendynTSB chair

Every piece of the information is critical to the investigation, and the NTSB is about transparency,

NTSB board chair Jennifer Homendy told CNN’s Pete Muntean on Monday

We must have only the highest standards for those who work in our aviation system,

Trump said

I could not see him, I lost him in the city lights... it did scare me.

Feller theorized similar conditions may have led to the American Airlines disaster, recalling

I can't get over how stunningly clear it is that this was a preventable crash and this should never, ever have occurred,

he said

We are now at a point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation. At this point, we don't believe there are any survivors from this accident,

John Donnelly, chief of the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department, told a press conference at the airport on Thursday morning

These responders found extremely frigid conditions. They found heavy wind. They found ice on the water, and they operated all night in those conditions,

he added