A dozen or more elite figure skaters were onboard the American Eagle flight that collided midair with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday night, officials said.

An American Airlines flight from Wichita to Washington, D.C. was involved in a crash near Reagan Airport Wednesday night.

A commuter jet and a military helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night, triggering a massive emergency response, officials said.The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that American Eagle Flight 5342,

An American Airlines flight going from Wichita to Washington, D.C., went down in the Potomac River after colliding with a military Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday. It comes just one year after Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport started offering nonstop flights to Washington.

The flight appeared to collide with a helicopter just before it was scheduled to land. This is a developing story and will be updated.

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

An American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter collided Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

The two cities involved in the crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 will be 'forever' linked, according to Wichita, Kan. Mayor Lily Wu.

A 20-year-old Wichita woman was among the 60 passengers of Flight 5342, her father said. Grace Maxwell, a Wichita native, was on her way back to college when the American Airlines jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.

During a press conference late Wednesday night providing information on a crash of an inbound plane from Wichita, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall and U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran said several Kansans are likely dead. Thursday morning Wichita, Kansas, Mayor Lily Wu called the disaster "truly devastating."

Here is a photo of a standard PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 series regional jet, from the American Airlines website. According to a brochure from Bombardier CRJ Series, the jet can hold up to 78 people. Per a flight manifest, American Eagle Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas had 60 passengers and four crew on board.

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.