A tragic plane crash has claimed the lives of many, including residents from Loudoun County and nearby Fairfax County in Northern Virginia.
There is an outpouring amount of support in the ice skating community as people created a small memorial in Virginia for the victims who lost their lives.
A family of 4 from Virginia, including two young girls known on social media as the "Ice Skating Sisters," were killed in the Washington, D.C., plane crash Wednesday.
As many as 60 passengers and four crew members were aboard American Eagle Flight 5342, and the Black Hawk helicopter was carrying three soldiers. There were no survivors.
Wichita, Kansas Mayor Lily Wu joins Chris Jansing to react to the deadly crash between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines plane that was flying to Washington, D.C. from Wichita.
WASHINGTON — An American Airlines regional jet carrying 64 people collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter late Wednesday near Reagan National Airport in Virginia just across from the District of Columbia, plunging both aircraft into the Potomac River.
Sixty-seven people are dead after a regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night over Washington, D.C., officials said, the nation’s first major commercial airline crash since 2009.
Numerous young figure skaters and some of their parents were killed in the tragic plane crash Wednesday night between American Airlines Flight 5342 from Kansas and an Army Black Hawk flying on a training mission.
The U.S. figure skating community is devastated after learning that several members were aboard the ill-fated American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River.
Leaders across the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia region, as well as federal lawmakers, are reacting to the tragic American Airlines plane crash near DCA.
Some of the figure skaters and their families reportedly on American Eagle Flight 5342 trained at the Ashburn Ice House in eastern Loudoun County.
Image via GoFundMe A 12-year-old, who beat cancer as an infant, and her mother are among the dead after a deadly DC plane crash. An American Airlines flight landing at Reagan National Airport crashed after hitting a military helicopter.