On January 29, 2025, an American Airlines regional jet, operating as Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, collided midair with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C., resulting in no survivors among the 64 individuals on the plane and the three soldiers aboard the helicopter.

Among the passengers were several members of the figure skating community, including former world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, a married couple and both Russian nationals.

Additionally, civil-rights attorney Kiah Duggins was on the flight, returning to Washington, D.C., after visiting Wichita, where she had attended high school and Wichita State University.

The identities of other passengers have not been publicly disclosed as authorities continue to notify next of kin.

Among the dead were an 11-year-old and her 14-year-old sister  of the 64 people that died when a military chopper collided with a commercial plane in Washington DC, have been named. Among the victims were figure skating sisters Everly, aged 14, and 11-year-old Alydia Livingston, aged 14, as well as Asra Hussain – the wife of the man who shared that he was praying she was going to be pulled out of the water just hours after the accident took place.