Data from a cockpit voice recorder of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an airliner near Washington, D.C, last week suggests the crew was wearing night-vision goggles.

Now, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will focus on retrieving the mangled helicopter, a crucial component in federal authorities' probe as they look to confirm data related to its altitude at the time of the collision,

In images shared by the NTSB, the crumpled metal that was once a working military helicopter can be seen being lifted from the water by a crane floating atop a barge in the Potomac River.