President Trump said the crash was a "tragedy of terrible proportions" and told family members "Our hearts are shattered alongside yours."

The captain flying the plane with 64 aboard was schooled in Florida. A Blackhawk helicopter collided with Flight 5342 near Ronald Reagan airport.

I don’t know of any other accident that has had this amount of impact on aviation but also in other industries,” one expert said of the 1982 crash.

Two Washington, D.C., airport employees have been arrested in connection with the leak of a video showing the moment Flight 5342 collided with a Black Hawk helicopter on Jan. 29.

Recovery crews could be seen pulling the American Airlines' plane wreckage out of Washington DC's Potomac River on Monday. Sixty passengers and four crew members were on the American Airlines flight and three soldiers on the Black Hawk helicopter.

More than 60 people are presumed dead after an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter crashed midair near Washington, D.C, Wednesday evening, officials have said.Flight 5342 from Kansas was on the final approach to Ronald Reagan National Airport when it collided with the Black Hawk helicopter before exploding a huge fireball.

Two airport employees have been arrested in connection with what officials said was an unauthorized release of video of last week's fatal plane crash over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. The footage showing the collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet was leaked to CNN,

Two employees at Ronald Reagan National Airport have been arrested following the plane crash in Washington, D.C. An American Airlines jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in the middle of the air on Wednesday evening,