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

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.

The two cities involved in the crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 will be 'forever' linked, according to Wichita, Kan. Mayor Lily Wu.

Gold medalist Brian Boitano said his “heart breaks” for those impacted by the American Airlines flight 5342 crash after a memorable week in Wichita, his mother’s hometown

An American Airlines flight that departed from Wichita, Kansas, on Wednesday collided with a military helicopter at Reagan National Airport.

A passenger jet carrying around 60 in a direct flight from Wichita collided with a Black Hawk military helicopter near the Potomac River.

Anybody who has spent time in D.C., the sky is always full of helicopters. And no one’s willing to say, ‘No, we just can’t have this.’”

A commuter jet and a military helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night, triggering a massive emergency response, officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that American Airlines Flight 5342,

Wichita's Eisenhower National Airport experienced passenger growth and American Airlines added a direct flight to DC a year before the deadly crash.

Kansas officials reacted to the fatal plane crash in D.C., saying the tragedy will "unite those in Washington D.C. and Wichita, Kansas, forever."