The skies around Washington are often crowded with commercial flights, military planes, helicopters and other aircraft.

The plan to add five incoming and five outgoing flights was included in the bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act last year.

As the American Eagle Flight 5342, a CRJ jet, approached the helicopter, the tower controller asked the helicopter pilot if he had the CRJ in sight. The helicopter pilot cannot be heard responding to the question before the two aircraft collided.

Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kan.) said Thursday that the deadly plane crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night will “be a tragedy that touches our community.” Estes represents Kansas’s 4th Congressional District,

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the military has identified the three soldiers killed in the Black Hawk collision over the Potomac River.

An American Airlines plane, believed to be carrying 60 passengers and four crew members, has crashed with a Blackhawk military helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington DC

A regional jet that had departed from Wichita, Kansas, crashed into a Black Hawk while on approach to Ronald Reagan National Airport.

Three soldiers were onboard the helicopter, an Army official said.

Investigators have retrieved the voice and data recorders from the passenger plane following Wednesday's crash which killed 67 people.

The flight that took off from Wichita, only to meet disaster in Washington, has reminded some residents of past crashes that broke their city’s heart.

Officials shared they believe there are no survivors in the midair collision between an American Airlines flight and a military helicopter near Washington, D.C.