A midair collision between an Army helicopter and a passenger jet killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft, officials said, as they search for answers in the nation's deadliest aviation disaster in nearly 25 years.

A multi-agency search and rescue operation is underway in the Potomac River after a small American Airlines aircraft collided with an Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport, authorities confirmed.

ATLANTA — After an American Airlines passenger jet and Army helicopter collided over the Potomac River in Washington D.C. on Wednesday night, several flights between Atlanta and Washington, D.C. have been impacted on Thursday.

"The Army pilot made a grave error," Timothy Lilley said. "It hurts me because those are my brothers, and now my son is dead."

A look at the victims of Wednesday’s devastating mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army helicopter near Washington, D.C.

A Georgia high school says that one of the soldiers involved in the mid-air collision was a former student and a member of their MCJROTC program.

Flights at Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. were suspended Thursday morning after the collision of an American Airlines jet and a military helicopter Wednesday.

Authorities say there were no survivors after the two aircraft plummeted into the Potomac River in the country's deadliest aviation disaster since 2001.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 60 people were dead after an American Airlines regional passenger jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday and crashed into the frigid Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport.

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Crews are continuing their efforts to recover the remaining victims from the Potomac River after an American Airlines jet collided with the U.S. military helicopter in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night,

Officials near Washington, D.C. fear there are no survivors of the mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport. The jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members and the Blackhawk helicopter collided while landing at the airport Wednesday night.