At 8.47pm ET (January 29), a PSA Airlines aircraft, which is owned by American Airlines, collided mid-air with a Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers who were taking part in a training flight, according to a US military official.

U.S. figure skater Spencer Lane, 16, shared a photo from inside American Eagle Flight 5342 before it took off from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington, D.C., where it crashed into a helicopter mid-air.

Multiple passengers are confirmed to have died following a mid-air collision over Washington, DC, on Wednesday night, including a well-known TikTok figure skating star

U.S. figure skater Spencer Lane, 16, shared a photo from inside American Eagle Flight 5342 before it took off from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington, D.C., where it crashed into a helicopter mid-air.

A teenage figure skater who was killed when a helicopter crashed into American Airlines flight 5342 on Wednesday shared a now-haunting image from the plane.

A young figure skater on the US team who had been on the American Airlines flight that suffered a collision with a Black Hawk helicopter mid-air posted a tragic final photo to social media after boarding the plane.

Families and friends of those who lost loved ones in the deadly American Airlines and Army helicopter collision are sharing tributes online in memory of the crash victims.

Soviet figure skater Inna Volyanskaya is among the victims of the horror crash between an American Airlines flight and a military helicopter in the US.

Figure skater Jon Maravilla has revealed he was supposed to be onboard the American Airlines 5432 flight which collided with a helicopter in Washington D.C.

Sam Lilley, the pilot on the fatal American Airlines crash, was supposed to get married this fall according to his father

Douglas Lane spoke of his late son Spencer's love of figure skating in the wake of the teenager being one of the victims to have died in the DC plane crash.

Authorities investigate Washington DC plane crash site after American Airlines disaster Watch live as authorities continue to investigate the Potomac River on Friday, 31 January, after an American Airlines plane and US army helicopter crashed in Washington DC two days previously.