Divers return to the Potomac River as part of the recovery after the United States’ deadliest aviation disaster in almost a quarter century

Tragedy struck in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night, as an American Airlines jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. That crash resulted in the largest aviation disaster the United States has seen since November 2001.

The Bombardier and Black Hawk helicopter accident echoes another equally tragic incident that occurred in 1982. Of the 84 plane passengers, only five survived. The Bombardier and Black Hawk helicopter accident that crashed into the Potomac River in front of Washington brings echoes of another tragedy,