Southwest's CEO Bob Jordan said "our hearts go out" to people on the American Airlines flight involved in Wednesday night’s midair collision with a helicopter in the nation’s capital.
He indicated 27 bodies had been recovered from the airplane, and one from the helicopter.
Latest news and live updates after an American Airline jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River.
The first officer on the American Airlines plane that crashed into a military helicopter Wednesday night—killing all 64 people on board—has been identified by his father as one of the victims alongside American and Russian figure skaters,
Authorities continue to search for bodies and determine what led to the Wednesday, Jan. 29, midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River in the Washington,
An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with a regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday evening, U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News.
United CEO Scott Kirby diminished American in comments on Wednesday. American CEO Robert Isom barely responded during American's earnings call.
The married couple, won the world championships in pairs figure skating in 1994, had reportedly lived in the US since at least 1998.
Delta, United, American and Southwest generated about $8 billion in profit on $200 billion in revenue last year, but the airlines all lost money flying passengers.
Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are feared dead as a recovery mission is underway.
The search and rescue mission was transitioning to a recovery mission, and no survivors were expected, DC Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly said.