Search efforts continue after an American Airlines plane from Wichita, with 64 people on board, collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River.

The US Figure Skating association confirms "several members of the skating community" were on board the flight, which was arriving from Kansas.

A number of bodies are reported to have been recovered, but there is no official update on the number of people who have died.

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

A look at the frequency of runway incursions in the United States and the preventative measures taken by the FAA to avoid ...

A passenger plane and a military helicopter collided close to Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night. American Airlines Flight 5342 was approaching a runway at the airport to land shortly ...

An American Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter outside ...

The helicopter was a UH-60 Black Hawk based at Fort Belvoir in Virginia flying south over the Potomac River as the American Airlines flight was flying north. A few minutes before ...