The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board plan to brief senators Thursday on last week's midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a military helicopter near Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport that killed 67,

The Army Corps of Engineers is expected to begin removing wreckage following the deadly collision of an Army helicopter and a passenger plane.

Authorities said on Saturday that 42 bodies had been recovered from the crash site, 38 of which had been identified.

Data confirmed that the air traffic controller alerted the helicopter to the presence of the CRJ-700 about two minutes before the crash.

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.

A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the Potomac River, in Arlington,

Data retrieved from an investigation into a collision last week between an American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington that killed 67 people will be released on Tuesday,