No Survivors in Fatal Helicopter-Plane Crash at Reagan National Airport, DC

Photo – Petty Officer 2nd Class Taylor Bacon/ US Coast Guard handout/EPA-EFE-Shutterstock

Officials say there were no survivors in an air collision that took place at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night.

A Black Hawk military helicopter crashed into an American Airlines passenger jet estimated to be carrying roughly 65 passengers. Both the plane and helicopter fell into the Potomac River where rescue and recovery operations were taking place. The tragedy was the nation’s first major commercial collision since 2009.

The regional passenger jet took off from Wichita, Kansas, and was just about to land at Reagan when the military copter inexplicably collided with the plane, which was moments from its arrival when tragedy struck.

Among those lost in the crash were 14 people who were returning home from a national figure skating development camp in Wichita, said Doug Zeghibe, CEO and executive director for the Skating Club of Boston.

This is a developing story.