Skater Jon Maravilla told The Daily Beast on Thursday that he was going to Atlanta, not D.C., but couldn't board because of his dog.

A longtime Atlanta area air traffic controller said he was devastated to learn about the deadly midair collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport.

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.

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

ATLANTA — Retired Marine Corps Sgt. Dave Erwin remembers Ryan O’Hara, a crew chief aboard the Black Hawk involved in the mid-air crash in Washington, D.C., as a dependable, hardworking young man who always carried a quiet smile. To Erwin, he was simply “a great kid.”

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.

The audit follows an incident in September where two jets clipped each other on the runway at Hartsfield-Jackson.

Jon Maravilla, the U.S. figure skater who was in Kansas with his teammates, said he was not allowed to board a plane because of his dog, but not the American Airlines flight that collided with a U.S.

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 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.

There were 14 members of the figure skating community reportedly aboard the plane that collided mid-air with a military helicopter.