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 United States athlete who was on board the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. shared a photo of the doomed plane moments before the accident. Spencer Lane,

Everly and Alydia Livingston died with parents Donna and Peter in the tragic American Airlines collision on Jan. 29

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.

One day before the midair crash in Washington, D.C., another collision was reportedly avoided near Reagan National Airport.

Investigators are currently looking into what caused the deadly plane crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. Wednesday evening. The midair collision between an American Airlines jet with 64 people on it and a Black Hawk military helicopter carrying three soldiers happened shortly before 9 p.

Officials have recovered 40 bodies from the wreckage after American Airlines flight collided with Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac