The plane, American Eagle flight 5342 with 60 passengers and 4 crew on board, had taken off from Wichita, Kansas, and was approaching for landing when it collided with an Army helicopter mid air. The helicopter was on a training flight with a crew of three, based at Fort Belvoir in Virginia,

A frantic search for survivors is underway after a passenger plane collided with a US Army helicopter midair near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, DC Wednesday night.

During a press conference about the Washington, D.C., plane crash that involved an American Airlines regional jet colliding with an Army Black Hawk helicopter, Senator Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, expressed his condolences and added that the flight is "personal" for him,

A small aircraft carrying oil workers in South Sudan's Unity State crashed on takeoff from its oilfield airport on Wednesday, killing 20 people, the region's information minister said.

An official says at least 18 people were killed when a small plane crashed in South Sudan.