''Actor Vic Morrow died in a helicopter crash on July 23, 1982 while filming Twilight Zone: The Movie. ''

The crash also killed child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, and injured six helicopter passengers.

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Potomac River has an average depth of 24 feet

From CNN’s Jamiel Lynch

The Potomac River has an average depth of 24 feet, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Averaging approximately 400 miles long from its headwaters at North Branch to its mouth in the Chesapeake Bay, the USGS said on their website.

The Potomac ranks 48th among 135 US rivers that are more than 100 miles long, it added.

The deepest point near Morgantown, Maryland, is 107 feet, while the navigable channel depth is 24 feet, which is maintained for 108 miles in the tidal portion of the river, downstream from Washington, DC, the website said.

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300 responders working on search-and-rescue operation, says DC Fire Chief

From CNN's Karina Tsui

There are currently about 300 responders working in a search-and-rescue operation at the Potomac River, DC Fire and EMS Chief John A. Donnelly Sr. said at a press conference at Reagan National Airport.

“At 8:58 (p.m.), the first units arrived on the scene and found an aircraft in the water and began rescue operations. This incident has grown,” he said. An alert was first sounded at 8:48 p.m., he said.

Donnelly described conditions as dark, cold, and windy.