Responders recall recovery mission, grief a year after midair collision

WASHINGTON (AP) — For some, it was the children’s luggage and small ice skates that became indelible memories of the night a passenger plane and a helicopter collided over the murky Potomac River. Others remember boats navigating debris and shallow water to bring victims’ bodies ashore.

And there was the suddenness: people seconds from landing, gone.

Families of those on board American Airlines Flig…