They were minutes away from landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington D.C., when their plane collided with an Army helicopter over the Potomac River. In a horrible flash captured on video and seen around the world, the fates of all 60 passengers and four crew members aboard American Eagle Flight 5342 and the three soldiers on the Black Hawk helicopter were sealed. “At this point, I don’t believe we are going to find any survivors,” Washington D.C., Fire Chief John Donnelly said Thursday after a frantic but futile search for survivors on the Wednesday night collision. The plane’s passengers included more than a dozen people returning from a training camp following the 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, where the flight originated. Two Chinese nationals were also on board, the Chinese Embassy in Washington said, citing preliminary information. The embassy did not identify the victims.