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.

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.

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.

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

The American Airlines flight that crashed with 60 passengers and four crew members onboard reportedly split in half after its collision on Wednesday.

Some 67 people — including three soldiers and more than a dozen figure skaters — were killed after a collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter Wednesday night.

Without evidence, Trump blamed air traffic controllers, the helicopter pilots and Democratic policies at federal agencies for Wednesday night's collision.

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

The plane, with four crew members and 60 passengers aboard, collided mid-air with a Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers

Seven of the 67 people killed when an American Airlines jet collided midair with an Army helicopter were members of the two flight crews