An American Airlines passenger jet with 64 people on board has crashed midair into a military helicopter while attempting to land at Reagan National Airport in Washington.
Emergency services in the city are searching the nearby Potomac River after the jet plummeted into the water just before 9pm on Wednesday night.
Officials have not said how many people died in the accident but have suggested that there may be no survivors. It is the first major commercial air crash in the US in 16 years.
As many as 15 people on the flight may have been involved in figure skating, according to reports.
Russian figure skaters Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were also on board the plane, Russian state-run TASS news agency reported, citing a source.
Married couple Shishkova, 53, and Naumov, 56, won the world championship in pairs figure skating in 1994.
The plane and U.S. Army black hawk helicopter crashed into the frigid Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport.
Black Hawk’s were made famous in movie Black Hawk Down:
