Northern Virginia’s figure skating community is reeling after receiving the news that a coach and multiple young skaters from the area were killed when an American Airlines flight and a military helicopter collided and crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport Wednesday evening.

Search efforts continue after an American Airlines plane from Wichita, with 64 people on board, collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River.

On Tuesday night, just 24 hours before a deadly collision between a military helicopter and a regional jet at Reagan National Airport, a different passenger jet coming in for a landing at the airport alerted the tower it had to abort. The reason: risk of possible collision with a helicopter.

Crews working to retrieve the passengers of the American Airlines jet and the army helicopter that collided and crashed into the Potomac on Wednesday night have to contend with the dangerously cold waters of the Potomac River.

American Airlines has canceled all flights to Washington, D.C., from Norfolk International Airport. Impacted D.C. flights are being rerouted to Richmond. "Our hearts are broken for the families who must now process the grief of such a sudden and unexpected death," wrote Winsome Sears on X.

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

A collision between a military helicopter and a regional jet killed 67 people over the Potomac River Wednesday night. Many of the dead were from Northern Virginia.

The names of the 60 passengers and four crew members on board began to emerge Thursday as authorities revealed there were likely no survivors of the fiery tragedy that was shaping up to be the

The airspace around Washington, D.C., is congested and complex — a combination aviation experts have long worried could lead to catastrophe.

Neither American Airlines nor U.S. aviation authorities have released an official list of the passengers and crew aboard the commercial flight, but a number of them have been identified in media reports.

A jet with 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army helicopter while approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C.,