An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

The National Transportation Safety Board says it has recovered a cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the American Airlines plane that collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport late Wednesday.

Black Hawk pilot Andrew Eaves was one of 67 people killed in a mid-air collision in Washington, D.C. Here's what we know about the Mississippi native.