A passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter collided in midair Wednesday and crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. President Trump confirmed Thursday that there were no survivors.

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.

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.

Kansas public officials offered condolences Thursday for the nearly 70 people killed in a collision between a passenger jet from Wichita and a military helicopter near Washington, and at least one state lawmaker denounced those who have politicized the tragedy.

An American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport and crashed into the Potomac River, according to officials.

Wednesday's crash was the deadliest in the U.S. since Nov. 12, 2001, when an American Airlines flight crashed into a residential area of Belle Harbor, New York, just after takeoff from Kennedy Airport, killing all 260 people aboard.

A midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over Washington, D.C., has left no expected survivors, authorities confirmed Thursday morning. The crash,

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

A regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday evening, U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News.

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

A mid-air collision between an American Airlines flight from Wichita and an Army helicopter sent emergency responders scrambling to the Potomac River near Reagan Airport on 30 January 2025.

I couldn’t make sense of what I saw because it didn’t seem like they were coming directly out of the plane,” one witness said of the sparks he saw.