Air traffic control received no response from a military Black Hawk helicopter seconds before colliding with an American Airlines flight from Wichita to Washington, D.C.

A regional jet carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Reagan National Airport grounded all flights.

The American Airlines plane operating as American Eagle Flight 5342 collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport.

An American Airlines flight that departed from Wichita, Kansas, on Wednesday collided with a military helicopter at Reagan National Airport.

Leaders across the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia region, as well as federal lawmakers, are reacting to the tragic American Airlines plane crash near DCA.

Just over a year after the inaugural American Airlines flight from Eisenhower National Airport to Washington, D.C. was celebrated as a milestone event aiding Wichita economic development, the Air Capital and its business community found itself Thursday mourning the tragic accident involving the same route.

A collision between a commercial jet and an Army helicopter has claimed more than 60 lives near the nation’s capital, officials said early Thursday, marking the nation’s deadliest aviation accident in more than two decades.

The American Airlines flight was carrying 64 people when it collided with a Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport.

Standing in the cold night air by the icy shores of the Potomac, onlookers asked: how was this tragedy possible?

A devastating midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a military helicopter resulted in both aircraft crashing into the icy waters of the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening.

An airplane collided with a helicopter while trying to land at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night, officials said.

A number of bodies are reported to have been recovered, but there is no official update on the number of people who have died.