During a press conference late Wednesday night providing information on a crash of an inbound plane from Wichita, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall and U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran said several Kansans are likely dead.

Mayor Lily Wu choked up as she responded to the news that a plane that departed from Wichita on Wednesday night collided with a helicopter in Washington, D.C. Authorities say that there are likely no survivors.

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."

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

The U.S. Army described the helicopter as a UH-60 Blackhawk based at Fort Belvoir in Virginia. The helicopter was on a training flight. Military aircraft frequently conduct training flights in and around the congested and heavily restricted airspace around the nation’s capital for familiarization and continuity of government planning.

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

The plane collided with a helicopter just before it was scheduled to land. This is a developing story and will be updated.

Several members' of the U.S. Figure Skating team were onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter over Washington, D.C., the governing body said in a statement.

The flight appeared to collide with a helicopter just before it was scheduled to land. This is a developing story and will be updated.

Wednesday night’s crash of an American Airlines commuter plane in Washington could be one of the worst disasters for the Fort Worth-based airline in more than two decades.

The CEO of The Skating Club of Boston, Doug Zeghibe, spoke with NBC 10 about the loss of some of his students and staff when a passenger plane collided with a military helicopter in Washington D.C. Zeghibe said,