Last night, a passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter collided in midair and crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.

This reporting from the New York Times.

Officials believe that no one survived the midair collision on Wednesday night of a commercial jet carrying 64 people and an army helicopter carrying three U.S. service members near Washington, D.C.

Both aircraft crashed into the Potomac River near Reynel Reagan National Airport

and crews searching the icy waters had pulled 28 bodies from the plane

and one from the helicopter, officials said in a news conference on Thursday morning.

Emergency responders were switching from a rescue to a

recovery operation, said Washington's fire chief, John Donnelly. Despite rampant speculation from

Republicans and the White House, an internal report from the New York Times is suggesting

that the controller on duty the night of the accident was doing a job usually handled by two people.

This question came up later at the NTSB news conference. Check out this clip.

Gabe Cohen from CNN. Can you tell me if the NTSB have reviewed this FAA internal report

that has been cited by the New York Times indicating that the controller

that was on duty at the time of the crash was doing a job that's usually done by two people?

We have not reviewed any specific reports about the controllers at this time, at least from the

leadership team.

Our investigators are continuing to pull all that information.

Their personnel records are files, where they were at, whether they were fatigued. All that

information will be part of that investigative process. But right now, we can't speculate on anything

that may have been reported in the media until we get the opportunity to validate and understand

how it impacts the investigation.

That's how you, that's how you do it if you're a professional.

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