Air crash investigations can take months, and federal investigators told reporters they would not speculate on the cause.
Investigators have retrieved the voice and data recorders from the passenger plane following Wednesday's crash which killed 67 people.
The NTSB is an independent federal agency responsible for investigating all civil aviation accidents and other serious incidents in the U.S.
No one is expected to have survived a collision between an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, officials said.WHAT WE KNOW SO ...