A regional jet carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Reagan National Airport grounded all flights.

Last year, senators from Virginia and Maryland sounded the alarm over congestion in the skies above Washington.

Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are feared dead as a recovery mission is underway.

Before the additional flights were approved, a senator warned that the increase could heighten the risk of collisions.

An airplane collided with a helicopter while trying to land at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night, officials said.

An American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair and crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night. Officials have not provided a death toll but said all passengers and crew on both flights were feared dead.

The local airport authority noted that pilots described Washington-National as one of the most challenging in the US.

Multiple 911 callers reported the crash near the river just before 8:55 p.m., according to the Metropolitan Police Department and the District of Columbia Fire and EMS.

A judge in Washington, D.C., sided with plaintiffs who claimed the White House’s freezing of billions of dollars in congressionally-approved funding violated the law.

On Wednesday evening, January 29, a plane crash occurred near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport - a passenger plane collided with a military Black Hawk

Emergency teams will continue efforts to retrieve the bodies of those who died when a passenger jet and helicopter collided.

Authorities have switched to a recovery mission in the Potomac River following a midair collision between an American Eagle flight and an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport in Washington,