An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with a regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday evening, U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News.

Search efforts continue in the Potomac River after an American Airlines plane with 60 passengers and four crew on board collided in midair with an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers near Reagan National Airport outside Washington,

At about 9pm local time (02:00 GMT) on Wednesday, an inbound American Airlines aircraft (flight 5342), manufactured by the Canadian firm Bombardier, collided with a Sikorsky Black Hawk army helicopter as it approached the Ronald Reagan airport, located along the Potomac River southwest of Washington, DC.

President Donald Trump has confirmed there were no survivors as he went on to blame Democrat policies and diversity hires for the horrific crash.

Officials indicated a number of people died after an American Airlines flight collided with a military helicopter Wednesday night, causing both to crash into the Potomac River. DC Fire and EMS (DCFE) and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said they received multiple calls about the incident near Ronald Reagan

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

Some 67 people — including three soldiers and more than a dozen figure skaters — were killed after a collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter Wednesday night.

WASHINGTON (NBC News) – President Donald Trump called the deadly collision “a tragedy of terrible proportions” and confirmed there were no survivors as he addressed reporters in the White House briefing room Thursday morning.

Sixty-seven passengers and crew died in Wednesday night's crash between a regional American Airlines jet and a Blackhawk helicopter from Fort Belvoir near Reagan National Airport.

Elon Musk, the spear tip of Trump’s “cost cutting” spree, demanded that he quit. It’s a truism that it’s bad form to politicize a tragedy, and Democrats have often abided that concept. Not surprisingly,

Just over a week after firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard, eliminating all the members of a key aviation security advisory group, and freezing all hiring at the Federal Aviation Administration,