China reported two dead Chinese nationals in US plane crash

As a result of a plane crash in Washington, two Chinese citizens were killed. This was reported by Xinhua news agency on January 31 with reference to the Chinese embassy in the United States.

"According to preliminary information, two Chinese citizens are now victims of a plane crash at Reagan National Airport in Washington," the publication said.

It is specified that the Chinese embassy appealed to the American side with a demand to soon verify this information so that the PRC could provide all the necessary assistance to the families of the victims.

Gone under water: in the U.S., an airplane collided with a helicopter near the Potomac River

Extensive work is underway, divers are retrieving bodies

On the night of January 30, a passenger plane American Airlines and a military helicopter Black Hawk collided near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, after the accident they fell into the Potomac River. A total of 60 passengers and four crew members were aboard the plane. There were three military personnel in the helicopter. The television company NBC News reported that the bodies of more than 30 victims were extracted from the water. In turn, US President Donald Trump reported the absence of survivors in the airplane crash in Washington.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there were Russian citizens in the plane that crashed in Washington. Peskov said that there were Russian figure skaters on board the passenger plane. He expressed condolences to the families and loved ones of those who died in the airplane crash.

Later, CNN reported that one of the flight recorders (black boxes) of the crashed passenger plane was recovered from the Potomac River near Washington. ABC News, citing a source familiar with the situation, reported that both flight recorders - voice and parametric - of the passenger plane had been found.