American Airlines CEO Robert Isom said the airline has activated its care team to assist in recovery efforts after one of its jets collided with a helicopter.

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.

Several figure skaters, coaches and family members were on board the flight that crashed Wednesday night in D.C.

According to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the Army helicopter was on an "annual proficiency training flight" and the three soldiers on board had night vision goggles.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had been sworn in just hours before the deadly midair collision of a plane and helicopter near Washington, D.C.

Duffy has quickly emerged as the public face of the federal government’s response to the deadly plane crash at Washington’s Reagan National Airport.

An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair with an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON – Central Wisconsin's Sean Duffy is facing his first big test as secretary of the Department of Transportation just one day after he was sworn into office.

Officials near Washington, D.C. fear there are no survivors of the mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport. The jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members and the Blackhawk helicopter collided while landing at the airport Wednesday night.

The Federal Aviation Authority has confirmed US Army Blackhawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane were involved in a mid-air collision.

An American Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter outside Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. Wednesday night. A D.C. fire official said Thursday that “we don't think there are any survivors from this accident" and "we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation.