American Airlines Flight 191 is seen plunging — the 1979 crash remains the deadliest aircraft accident in US history. | Credit: Michael Laughlin / Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via The Jan.

An American Airlines regional jet with around 60 passengers crashed in Washington D.C. Wednesday night following a collision with a military helicopter, according to officials. Here’s what we know so far.

Early findings from the plane's data recorder show the pilots desperately tried to pull up just seconds before the collision, marking the deadliest aviation catastrophe in the US in 25 years

After American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army helicopter collided mid-air, officials shared insight into the respective pilots’ communication with air traffic control.

Just five days after the deadliest U.S. air disaster since 2001, crews began removing the wreckage from the collision between an American Airlines plane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter that left 67 dead.