A regional American Airlines passenger jet and a Black Hawk military helicopter collided over Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night in the nation's first major commercial airline crash since 2009. There are confirmed fatalities from the collision,

An American Airlines regional jetliner coming from Wichita, Kansas, collided midair with a Black Hawk military helicopter near Washington D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, officials said.

Rescue craft are in the Potomac River below the site of the collision with D.C. fire chief John Donnelly saying "we don't know" if there are any survivors.