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.

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.

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.

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.

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

There are no expected survivors from the crash, as the plane carried 60 passengers and four crew members, while the helicopter had three people on board.

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.

U.S. Figure Skating released a statement confirming some of their members were among the 64 people aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night.

The skaters were returning from a training camp that followed the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, which took place in Wichita and finished Sunday.

The passengers on the American Airlines flight included a group of figure skaters, their coaches, and family members. The group was returning from a development camp that followed the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita,