Jonathan Koziol, a retired Army chief warrant officer with more than 30 years of flight experience, told reporters that the flight was a nighttime qualification flight with an instructor pilot evaluating an experienced pilot on the flight routes that their unit routinely flies day and night around the Potomac River.

Sixty-seven people died in a collision between a Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet operated by PSA Airlines and a military Black Hawk helicopter.

Police boats have returned to the Potomac River as part of the recovery and investigation after the United States’ deadliest aviation disaster in almost a quarter century.

Plus: President Donald Trump orders preparations on a facility at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay to house up to 30,000 migrants.

Investigations are ongoing.  Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. "We simply don't have all the facts yet, and they won't come out until they get all the black boxes,