Parts of the cockpit and tail of an American Airlines regional plane were recovered Tuesday as crews continued pulling pieces of the wreckage from the Potomac River following last week's deadly midair collision over Washington,

A large portion of the fuselage from the American Eagle passenger plane that crashed with an Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C., last week was pulled from the Potomac River on Monday, officials said.

An American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport and crashed into the Potomac River, according to officials.