Before the deadly collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday, Delta Air Lines lobbied Congress to allow more flights into the busy airport, with the support of lawmakers from Georgia.

Flights in and out of the Virginia airport originally halted as dive teams scoured the crash site throughout the night.

RICHMOND, Va. ( WWBT /Gray News) - A retired pilot gave a first-hand view of what it’s like to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Chuck Smith says he has made that approach and landing hundreds of times in his career. He shared a video showing what it looks like to fly near Washington, D.C., and over the Potomac River.

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.

A solider involved in the American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter has ties to Gwinnett County.

DCA Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has shut down and The Federal Aviation Authority has confirmed a American Airlines Flight operated by PSA Airlines collided mid-air with a Blackhawk Sikor

A United States Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crashed at approximately 9 p.m. while performing a training mission near Ronald Reagan

Sixty-seven people died in a collision between a Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet operated by PSA Airlines and a military Black Hawk helicopter.

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A passenger jet collided Wednesday with a military helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington.

(AP) — Ronald Reagan National Airport says that all takeoffs ... night that a small aircraft was down near the airport just outside Washington and that fireboats were on the scene.

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — An aircraft went down near Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night, and all takeoffs and landings have been halted, according to the airport and law enforcement.