Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board gave updates on the crash that killed 67 people when a passenger plane collided with an Army helicopter in Washington, D.C., including salvage efforts and the recovered data recorders.

Officers tried to get into the vehicle to save the driver, but, 'due to the intensity of the flames and heat, they were unable to rescue the occupant,' the department said.

Watch as the National Transportation Safety Board hosts a media briefing on its investigation into Wednesday’s mid-air collision near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

The National Transportation Safety Board will be holding its first briefing into the investigation of the deadly American Airlines plane crash in Washington, DC. Click to watch.

An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night. Officials said no survivors are expected.

No evidence has emerged that rules seeking to diversify the FAA played any role in the collision Wednesday between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter that killed

President Donald Trump's remarks this week blaming diversity recruitment at the FAA as a potential reason for the plane crash that killed 67 people has drawn attention to the agency’s attempts to address its most pressing and long-standing staffing problem.

Until the fires, Los Angeles seemed to be itching to fight Trump on national issue after national issue. Now it has to look inward and rekindle pragmatism at City Hall and at the Board of Supervisors.

And the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (L.A. Metro ... three weeks after Donald Trump’s election, the L.A. Metro board wrote to the incoming president and asked ...

The National Transportation Safety Board provides updates following the deadly D.C. plane crash. The mid-air collision between an Army helicopter and a jetliner killed all 67 people aboard, marking the deadliest U.

The National Transportation Safety Board hosted a media briefing on its investigation into Wednesday’s mid-air collision near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.The collision involved a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 airplane and a Sikorsky H-60 military helicopter and killed 67 people.

The National Transportation Safety Board is an independent federal agency tasked with examining serious transport-related accidents.