Small aircraft crashes near Washington DC airport

A tiny craft has crashed adjacent Washington DC's Ronald Reagan National Airport, according to section officials.

It came down successful the Potomac River, officials said, and hunt and rescue boats person been deployed to the area.

Takeoffs and landings person been halted astatine the airdrome arsenic exigency unit respond to the incident, the airdrome wrote successful a station connected X.

It is not yet wide what caused the crash.

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