In an emotional news conference, the mayor of Wichita, Kansas said her city is grieving the "tragic" plane collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter outside of Washington, DC Wednesday night.

All 64 people aboard a flight from Wichita, Kansas – 60 passengers and four crew members – and the three soldiers on a U.S. Army helicopter were believed dead after the two aircraft collided in a fiery explosion near Washington,

The two cities involved in the crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 will be 'forever' linked, according to Wichita, Kan. Mayor Lily Wu.

During a press conference late Wednesday night providing information on a crash of an inbound plane from Wichita, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall and U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran said several Kansans are likely dead.

Wichita, Kansas, the city from where an American Airlines jet departed Wednesday with 64 people on board before crashing midair with a U S Army helicopter carrying three soldiers near Reagan National

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

More than 60 people are believed to be dead after a passenger plane collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night near Washington, D.C.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran has flown from Wichita to Washington, D.C., dozens of times. He will now have hearings on what went wrong in Wednesday's crash.

A plane from Wichita that collided with a helicopter over the Potomac River was traveling a nonstop route established only a year ago, officials say.

Several members' of the U.S. Figure Skating team were onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter over Washington, D.C., the governing body said in a statement.

The U.S. Army described the helicopter as a UH-60 Blackhawk based at Fort Belvoir in Virginia. The helicopter was on a training flight. Military aircraft frequently conduct training flights in and around the congested and heavily restricted airspace around the nation’s capital for familiarization and continuity of government planning.