The victims of the first major U.S. commercial air disaster in 16 years included a rising legal star, an engineering student coming from her grandfather's funeral, two Chinese nationals, a group of hunters,

American Airlines Flight 5342 with 60 passengers and four crew hit an Army helicopter near Washington D.C.'s Reagan National Wednesday night, sending the two aircraft into the Potomac River and killing all aboard in the deadliest U.

On Wednesday, several Virginia residents were among the 67 people who died on the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter.

Transgender pilot Jo Ellis is rumored to have been involved in the American Airlines flight and Black Hawk collision.

No survivors found in crash between Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines jet over Potomac River near DC

Authorities believe there are no survivors after a military helicopter collided with a civilian airliner midair.

The rare circular ice slabs spun, collided and collected in large eddies because of the prolonged cold weather.

Crews working to retrieve the passengers of the American Airlines jet and the army helicopter that collided and crashed into the Potomac on Wednesday night have to contend with the dangerously cold waters of the Potomac River.

Loudoun County and Fairfax County public school systems says multiple victims in the Potomac River plane crash Wednesday night were community members. Neither school system provided names of the deceased,

D.C. Water is dropping crews and a 14-ton drilling rig just north of Great Falls in Virginia to gather samples for a future sewer project.

Emergency response units conduct search and rescue operations in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on Jan. 29, 2025 in Washington, D.C. An American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a helicopter while approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)