An American Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter outside Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. Wednesday night. A D.C. fire official said Thursday that “we don't think there are any survivors from this accident" and "we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation.

An American Airlines regional passenger jet was involved in a mid-air collision on Wednesday night with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, officials said. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas said on social media that "we know there are fatalities,

The Federal Aviation Authority has confirmed US Army Blackhawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane were involved in a mid-air collision.

A commercial airliner and a military helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport, with at least two bodies found in the Potomac River. Emergency operations are ongoing as officials search for more victims.

An Army helicopter on a training flight collided with an American Airlines regional jet that was on approach into Washington D.C.’s Reagan National Airport.

A Sikorsky H-60 military helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger plane at the Reagan National Airport near Washington DC last night

US since 2009 This marks the first major commercial crash in the United States since the Colgan Air crash in Buffalo, New York, in 2009, when dozens of people were killed. The last fatality on a plane was when a woman was partially sucked out of a window during a Southwest flight in 2018.