Kansas officials are sharing what they know after an American Airlines flight that departed from Wichita crashed in Washington, D.C., Wednesday night.

A community prayer vigil was held in Wichita, Kansas in the wake of a deadly crash between a passenger jet from Wichita and an Army helicopter.

Officials say more than 60 people were aboard the plane when it and an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided over the Potomac River late Wednesday night.

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

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A plane from Wichita appeared to collide with a helicopter near Washington, D.C. and has landed in 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.

Grace Maxwell, a student at Cedarville University in Greene County, and Elizabeth Anne Keys, a Cincinnati native, were among 67 killed in plane crash.

Multiple figure skaters and coaches who took part in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships were reportedly aboard an airplane that crashed above Washington D.C.

Sixty-seven people are presumed dead after a passenger plane on approach to Reagan National Airport near Washington, DC, collided Wednesday night with a US Army helicopter midair, sending both aircraft into the Potomac River below,

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

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

The District of Columbia's Metropolitan Police Department said on its social media accounts that it was responding to an apparent airplane crash in the Potomac River.