Officials indicated a number of people died after an American Airlines flight collided with a military helicopter Wednesday night, causing both to crash into the Potomac River. DC Fire and EMS (DCFE) and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said they received multiple calls about the incident near Ronald Reagan

Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are feared dead as a recovery mission is underway.

Authorities shared a grim update on the collision involving an American Airlines passenger plane and a black hawk helicopter over Ronald Reagan International Airport in Washington, D.C.

An American Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter outside Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. Wednesday evening. Three soldiers were onboard the helicopter and a massive search and rescue operation is now unfolding in the Potomac River.

D.C. police confirmed a crash had taken place over the Potomac and that search and rescue operations were taking place in the river. Donald Trump later weighed in.

An American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter collided Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Eighteen bodies were reportedly removed from the Potomac River following the Wednesday, Jan. 29, crash between an American Airlines regional passenger plane and a helicopter.

Hundreds of responders have removed at least 28 bodies from the icy waters of the Potomac River after a deadly plane crash, according to officials as of Thursday morning.

One onlooker said that he initially “didn’t think much of it” and thought the collision resembled “shooting stars.”

American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter are feared dead in what was likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a quarter century, officials said Thursday.

According to the FAA, an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided into a 60-passenger flight landing at DCA midair.

One of the worst nightmares for travelers might have just happened. An American Airlines plane from Wichita, Kansas (Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport – ICT) to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) appears to have crashed into the Potomac River.