Jo Ellis was not flying the helicopter. The Army identified the Black Hawk crew as Ryan Austin O’Hara, Andrew Loyd Eaves and Rebecca M. Lobach.

A key safety system was turned off in a US army helicopter when it crashed into an American Airlines flight last week, killing 67 people.

Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel were killed, and a recovery mission is underway.

NTSB investigators have recovered the Black Hawk helicopter from a Washington, D.C. collision with an American Airlines airplane from the the Potomac River. Parts of the wreckage are being transported to Ronald Reagan Washington National airport for further examination.

Victims' families gathered near the site where a plane and copter collided and fell into the Potomac River. 'They are all hurt,' an official said.

The wreckage of a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into a plane above the Potomac River has been recovered from the water. Footage captured by the National Transportation Safety Board shows the recovery of a Sikorsky UH-60 military helicopter from the river near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on 7.