The Associated Press is providing live video of the scene of the plane crash near Washington’s Reagan Airport:
While officials have not said how many people died or were injured, the crash has already taken an emotional toll on the local communities.
There was no immediate word on the cause of the collision, but all takeoffs and landings from the airport were halted as dive teams scoured the site and helicopters from law enforcement agencies across the region flew over the scene in a methodical search for bodies.
A jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River.
Emergency response units assess airplane wreckage in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on January 30, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. An American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a helicopter while approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Getty Images
There is at least one casualty after a helicopter crash at a major airport tonight. All runways have been shutdown and all departures and landings have been halted at the DCA Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Several flights in and out of Boston's Logan International Airport were canceled Thursday after a jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) near Washington.
A passenger jet has collided with a helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington.
An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with a regional American Airlines flight that was on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night.
Some experts, politicians and airport managers have been warning of the risks posed by the crowded airspace at Reagan Washington National Airport.
President Trump said Thursday morning he had been “fully briefed” on the deadly midair collision between a regional jet and an Army helicopter over the Potomac River. “I have