An American Airlines plane with 64 people on board collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River.

The victims of the first major U.S. commercial air disaster in 16 years included a rising legal star, an engineering student coming from her grandfather's funeral, two Chinese nationals, a group of hunters,

Loudoun County and Fairfax County public school systems says multiple victims in the Potomac River plane crash Wednesday night were community members. Neither school system provided names of the deceased,

On Wednesday, several Virginia residents were among the 67 people who died on the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter.

Transgender pilot Jo Ellis is rumored to have been involved in the American Airlines flight and Black Hawk collision.

D.C. Water is dropping crews and a 14-ton drilling rig just north of Great Falls in Virginia to gather samples for a future sewer project.

The rare circular ice slabs spun, collided and collected in large eddies because of the prolonged cold weather.

Authorities believe there are no survivors after a military helicopter collided with a civilian airliner midair.

I don’t know of any other accident that has had this amount of impact on aviation but also in other industries,” one expert said of the 1982 crash.

At least five young figure skaters from Northern Virginia and some of their parents were killed in the tragic plane crash Wednesday night between American Airlines Flight 5342 from Kansas and an Army Black Hawk flying on a training mission over the Potomac River.

Emergency response units conduct search and rescue operations in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on Jan. 29, 2025 in Washington, D.C. An American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a helicopter while approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)