A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter while on approach at Reagan Washington National Airport at about 9 p.m. Wednesday.

The skaters, ranging in age from 12 to 15, had stayed in Wichita beyond the National Championships to receive elite coaching.

Nearly 70 people are believed to have died in the crash, which happened when an American Airlines regional jet collided with a Black Hawk Army helicopter.

Search and rescue operations have turned into a recovery mission after an American Airlines passenger plane and an Army helicopter collided Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan National Airport.

Multiple figure skaters and coaches who took part in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships were reportedly aboard an airplane that crashed above Washington D.C.

Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River included athletes returning from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and their Russian coaches,

The ties to Boston conjured up painful memories for Nathan Birch, a Baltimore skater who grew up training at that very same club. He remembered seeing memorials from the 1961 crash, which killed several Boston club members, on the walls and in an upstairs lounge.

A crash between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter also claimed the lives of students, as a group of union steamfitters from the Washington, D.C.,

An American Airlines commercial flight and an Army Black Hawk chopper crashed midair on Jan. 29. Here are updates on this developing story.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin took to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday night after the crash to announce that he had been briefed by the Virginia Emergency Management team and Virginia State Police about what happened. He said at the time that extensive resources were fully supporting the search and rescue efforts.