Nearly all wreckage from the plane and helicopter crash ended up in the Potomac River, former Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for the Air Force Retired Brigadier General John Teichert says.
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00:00We've been speaking to eyewitnesses, and it doesn't sound like anyone was killed on the ground.
00:05I mean, had this happened a couple of kilometers away, it could have been a very different story,
00:09couldn't it? It is, Tom. This is a very congested area. Because the planes were landing to the north,
00:16this final approach path took it primarily up the Potomac River just south of Washington, D.C.,
00:22and all of the wreckage ended up in the water, as far as we can tell,
00:26just between the Reagan National Airport and Joint Base Anacostia Bowling across the Potomac.