Lily Wu, the mayor of Wichita, Kan., said the airline hasn’t yet released the list of passengers on the flight, known as the manifest. As a result, Wu said she didn’t know how many people from Wichita were on the flight.
Bob Schrock and his wife, Lori Schrock, perished on Wednesday night – two of the 60 passengers aboard American Airlines flight 5342 as the jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night. No one survived.
Residents in Wichita, Kansas, came together Thursday to mourn the lives of those lost on board a passenger jet that was involved in a deadly mid-air collision overnight at Reagan National Airport.
A regional American Airlines passenger jet and a Black Hawk military helicopter collided over Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night in the nation's first major commercial airline crash since 2009. There are confirmed fatalities from the collision,
The flight appeared to collide with a helicopter just before it was scheduled to land. This is a developing story and will be updated.
"Just the horror that the parents are going through. It just that blows me away. It makes me so sad for the families," said Joanne Kispert, 74, whose father died in the 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in New York in 2001.
A passenger jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport.Four crew members and 60 passengers were aboard the jet, and three aboard the helicopter.John Donnelly, the Washington DC fire chief,
House and Senate lawmakers from Kansas released a bipartisan statement on the tragic American Airlines crash Wednesday night in Washington, D.C.
A flight crew from Charlotte was onboard a plane that collided with a military Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River by Washington, D.C., according to multiple media reports and at least one crew member’s family.. A total of 67 people died — 60 passengers, four crew members on the commercial plane and three people on the military chopper.
The two Russian figure skating coaches killed in the American Airlines crash were two-time Olympians and former world champions in the pairs event.