ATLANTA — After an American Airlines passenger jet and Army helicopter collided over the Potomac River in Washington D.C. on Wednesday night, several flights between Atlanta and Washington, D.C. have been impacted on Thursday.

A family with Georgia ties is grieving after learning their loved one was one of the pilots killed in the crash between a small American Airlines plane and a military helicopter crash near Reagan National Airport.

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

Rescue efforts have been ongoing throughout the night after a passenger jet crashed mid-air with an Army helicopter as it was landing at DCA.

After an airplane and helicopter collision in Washington D.C. Wednesday night, several flights to and from Georgia have been canceled. Here's more.

A Georgia high school JROTC says a soldier killed in Wednesday night's midair collision near Washington D.C. is one of their own. Authorities say they fear there are no survivors after an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter collided near Ronald Reagan National Airport.

FOX 5 Atlanta spoke to Timothy Lilley, the father of pilot Sam Lilley who was killed in the D.C. plane crash.

Flights at Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. were suspended Thursday morning after the collision of an American Airlines jet and a military helicopter Wednesday.

People nervous about the return of a Trump presidency demonstrated in Washington, D.C., New York and other cities to show support for women’s rights, racial justice and other causes.

Reviewing flight tracking and control tower audio in the Washington, DC plane and helicopter collision Officials near Washington, D.C. fear there are no survivors of the mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport.

I couldn’t make sense of what I saw because it didn’t seem like they were coming directly out of the plane,” one witness said of the sparks he saw.

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.