A regional jet carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Reagan National Airport grounded all flights.

A collision between a commercial jet and an Army helicopter has claimed more than 60 lives near the nation’s capital, officials said early Thursday, marking the nation’s deadliest aviation accident in more than two decades.

A helicopter flies near the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed on approach to Reagan National Airport on Wednesday in Arlington, Virginia. The American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided with ...

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

Standing in the cold night air by the icy shores of the Potomac, onlookers asked: how was this tragedy possible?

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

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

A devastating midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a military helicopter resulted in both aircraft crashing into the icy waters of the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening.

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 NTSB may also take custody of victims’ personal effects but will return them to designated family members. You can call the board’s Transportation Disaster Assistance division at the above number for personal effect inquiries. D.C. area coroners will likely handle victim identification.

Multiple people are dead after passenger jet collides with a military helicopter midair near Reagan National Airport.

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., officials said. The plane, American Eagle Flight No.