U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies carry out recovery efforts after an American Airlines plane and a Black Hawk helicopter collided midair and crashed into the Potomac River.

An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with a regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday evening, U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News.

This post was updated with additional information from the Navy. Search efforts continue in the Potomac River after an American Airlines plane with 60 passengers and four crew on board collided in midair with an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers near Reagan National Airport outside Washington,

An American Airlines regional jet was involved in a midair collision near Washington, D.C., the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday.

A midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight from Kansas has killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft.

The last fatal commercial airlines plane crash in the US was Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009 just outside of Buffalo, NY.

One onlooker said that he initially “didn’t think much of it” and thought the collision resembled “shooting stars.”

The black boxes are the nickname for the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder that record events during a flight.

A midair collision near Reagan National Airport has raised questions about aviation safety protocols, following Donald Trump’s controversial hiring freeze on air traffic controllers just days earlier.

Volunteers, marine crews and members of the Coast Guard rescued nearly 900 stranded sea turtles from North Carolina's coast during a cold snap in mid-December.

The Army helicopter and regional American Eagle jet that collided over Washington are both workhorse aircraft that operate around the world on a daily basis.