The American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday night had flown twice to Bangor earlier this week.
That plane flew from Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., to Bangor International Airport, where it landed at 3:39 p.m. Tuesday. It departed for the nation’s capital at 4:33 p.m., according to the website FlightAware.
It also made a trip between D.C. and Bangor late Sunday morning.
That American Airlines plane was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members from Wichita, Kansas, to Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night, when a Black Hawk helicopter with three soldiers aboard crossed into its path during a routine landing, The Associated Press reported.
The soldiers were on a training flight.
As of Thursday morning, 28 bodies have been recovered from the area around the Potomac River. Authorities fear that no one has survived. It’s the deadliest plane crash in the U.S. in 24 years.
“We are now at the point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation,” the AP quoted John Donnelly, the fire chief in the nation’s capital, as saying Thursday morning. “We don’t believe there are any survivors.”
In response, American Airlines flights between Ronald Reagan National Airport and Maine’s two largest airports were canceled Thursday.
