Emergency services in the city are searching the Potomac River near the airport following the incident just before 9 p.m. on ...

An American Airlines flight with 64 people on board collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter with three soldiers aboard on Wednesday night Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has ...

American Airlines CEO Robert Isom said he will head to Washington, D.C., as part of the airline's response to Wednesday night ...

Here are images of the two aircrafts involved in the crash, taken from airline websites and directly manufacturers.

An American Airlines regional jet and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter collided mid-air near Reagan Washington National ...

The number of people onboard and any fatalities is unknown at this time. The plane can carry up to 65 passengers and four ...

A plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members crashed into the Potomac River in the US shortly after 9pm local time ...

An American Airlines regional passenger jet was involved in a mid-air collision on Wednesday night with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, officials said. ...

Search and rescue efforts were underway in the Potomac River after a passenger jet carrying 64 people collided with a Black ...

Emergency services in Washington DC are searching the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport following ...

Before Wednesday’s mid-air collision in Washington, the last fatal US passenger plane accident occurred in February 2009.

Officials held a news conference at the Kansas airport - where the American Airlines jet took off from - talking about the crash in D.C.