A regional jet carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Reagan National Airport grounded all flights.

Air traffic control received no response from a military Black Hawk helicopter seconds before colliding with an American Airlines flight from Wichita to Washington, D.C.

Just over a year after the inaugural American Airlines flight from Eisenhower National Airport to Washington, D.C. was celebrated as a milestone event aiding Wichita economic development, the Air Capital and its business community found itself Thursday mourning the tragic accident involving the same route.

Figure skaters, pipefitters and foreign nationals were among the more than 60 people killed when an American Airlines regional jet collided midair with an Army helicopter near the nation’s capital on Wednesday,

The American Airlines flight was carrying 64 people when it collided with a Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport.

An American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army helicopter carrying three soldiers while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington Wednesday evening.

A devastating midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a military helicopter resulted in both aircraft crashing into the icy waters of the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening.

An American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport and crashed into the Potomac River, according to officials.

The nation mourned its deadliest aviation accident in decades Thursday, a midair crash between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter that killed 67 people in Washington, while President Trump blamed Democrats for enabling the tragedy with misguided diversity policies that he said put safety second.

The position configuration was not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” the report said. A person familiar with the matter, however, said the tower staffing on Wednesday night was at a normal level.

Wednesday’s fatal crash of a civilian plane and military helicopter at Reagan National Airport may reflect rising stresses on air-safety systems.

Donald Trump has been heavily criticised for suggesting diversity policies are to blame for a plane crash that killed 67 people in Washington DC.