Crews will begin removing the wreckage of the passenger jet from the Potomac River at first light Monday morning as search efforts continue for the remains of victims from last week's crash.

Crews searched the Potomac River in Washington, DC, for the bodies of victims involved in the plane crash on Wednesday, January 29, footage shows.This footage captured by Andrew Leyden shows several emergency crews on Hains Point near the Potomac River on Wednesday night.

Crews using a crane lifted the first pieces of wreckage from the downed American Airlines regional jet from the Potomac River on Monday morning as rescue workers sought to recover all 67 bodies from the crash site near Ronald Reagan National Airport.

Crews were on scene on the Potomac River on Monday to retrieve the submerged wreckage of an airliner and an Army helicopter that collided midair last week in the deadliest US air disaster since 2001.

Moving into a second day, crews returned to the Potomac River to retrieve pieces of the American Airlines plane that was involved in a deadly collision with a U.S. Army helicopter. The crash claimed the lives of 67 people.

Crews began removing wreckage from the Potomac River on Monday, five days after 67 people were killed in a midair collision over Washington, D.C., between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter. The crash was the deadliest U.