Bob Schrock and his wife, Lori Schrock, perished on Wednesday night – two of the 60 passengers aboard American Airlines flight 5342 as the jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night. No one survived.
In an emotional news conference, the mayor of Wichita, Kansas said her city is grieving the "tragic" plane collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter outside of Washington, DC Wednesday night.
Residents in Wichita, Kansas, came together Thursday to mourn the lives of those lost on board a passenger jet that was involved in a deadly mid-air collision overnight at Reagan National Airport.
The two cities involved in the crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 will be 'forever' linked, according to Wichita, Kan. Mayor Lily Wu.
"This is going to be really hard on our skating community for a very, very long time," said Wichita Skating Club President Jolene Taylor. "You don't think that tomorrow they might not be here."
Sixty-seven people are presumed dead following a collision between an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter.
Mayor Lily Wu urged the city to focus on unity at a prayer vigil held for victims of a plane crash in D.C. The doomed flight departed from Wichita.
The tragic loss of life due to the commercial plane and military helicopter crash that took place in Washington D.C. is being felt by the Kansas City skating community.
Wichita's Eisenhower National Airport experienced passenger growth and American Airlines added a direct flight to DC a year before the deadly crash.
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The mid-air collision between the American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter near Washington DC claimed the lives of 67 people, including talented young figure skaters