What we know about American Airlines plane crash in Washington DC

Sixty-seven people are believed to have died in Wednesday's disaster, which is being investigated.

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It is not clear what caused the crash. Flight-tracking data appears to suggest the helicopter was flying above the permitted altitude minutes before the collision. But an investigation is continuing to determine what went wrong.

Authorities have recovered the flight data recorders from the American Airlines jet, and continue to find bodies in the icy Potomac River where the plane fell.

The plane, a Bombardier CRJ700, had travelled from Wichita, Kansas. It was operating as American Airlines flight 5342.

The US Army helicopter was a Sikorsky H-60 Black Hawk that took off from Fort Belvoir in Virginia, and belonged to B Company, 12th Aviation Battalion.

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