Authorities are investigating an apparent crash involving a regional jetliner and a helicopter near a Washington, D.C. area airport, according to U.S. government and industry officials.

A massive emergency response remains on scene of an aircraft crash in the water near Reagan National Airport. A military helicopter and a regional jet with 64 people on board collided mid-air Wednesday night.

A regional jet and Blackhawk helicopter collided mid-air near Reagan National, causing alarm across the D.C. metro Wednesday night.

American Airlines Chief Executive Robert Isom said Flight 5342 was “on an otherwise normal approach” to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when it collided with a military helicopter Wednesday night.

WASHINGTON — Just over 24 hours before Wednesday’s fatal midair collision, a different regional jet executed a go-around maneuver when descending to land at Reagan Airport due to a military helicopter in the same area.

Radar tracking sites show the passenger jet appears to have fallen into the frigid Potomac River. Officials at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport say all takeoffs and landings were halted.

US since 2009 This marks the first major commercial crash in the United States since the Colgan Air crash in Buffalo, New York, in 2009, when dozens of people were killed. The last fatality on a plane was when a woman was partially sucked out of a window during a Southwest flight in 2018.

By David Shepardson, Trevor Hunnicutt and Brad Brooks WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the Potomac River after a midair collision near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night,

A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet collided with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter, the FAA said. Reagan National Airport has grounded all flights.