More than 60 people are presumed dead after an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter crashed midair near Washington, D.C, Wednesday evening, officials have said.Flight 5342 from Kansas was on the final approach to Ronald Reagan National Airport when it collided with the Black Hawk helicopter before exploding a huge fireball.

Families were waiting at the airport to welcome home loved ones when their plane, just minutes from landing, collided midair with a military helicopter in a fiery explosion, plunging 67 lives full of promise into the cold,

Ari Schulman told NBC Washington that he saw the plane crash while driving on the George Washington Parkway, which runs along the airport. He said the plane's approach looked normal, until he saw the aircraft bank hard to the right, with "streams of sparks" running underneath, illuminating its belly.

Washington, D.C. officials have now positively identified 66 of the 67 people killed in Wednesday's midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a military helicopter over the Potomac River.

Rescue teams have now identified 55 of the 67 victims from last week's devastating American Airlines crash in the Potomac River, officials announced on Sunday evening. The death toll has risen significantly from the previously reported 42 victims,

Recovery crews could be seen pulling the American Airlines' plane wreckage out of Washington DC's Potomac River on Monday. Sixty passengers and four crew members were on the American Airlines flight and three soldiers on the Black Hawk helicopter.