Crews began the complex job of lifting American Airlines Flight 5432 from the Potomac River after it collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter in the Washington, D.C., area.

Salvage crews have recovered an engine and large pieces of fuselage and are working to retrieve a wing from wreckage of last week’s midair collision near Washington’s Reagan National Airport

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.