An American Airlines flight from Wichita to Washington, D.C. was involved in a crash near Reagan Airport Wednesday night.

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.

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.

Kansas elected officials issued statements on Thursday morning following the tragic midair crash between a commercial plane that had taken off from Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita and an Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night in Washington,

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.

The victims include figure skaters, family members and coaches who had been attending a national training camp for top young skaters in Kansas. Among the victims were Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov,

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

On Thursday, Kansas Senator Jerry Moran said the Wichita flight that crashed on its way to Washington D.C. was personal to him because he lobbied to make the flight. In July