Leaders across the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia region, as well as federal lawmakers, are reacting to the tragic American Airlines plane crash near DCA.

Residents in Wichita are grieving after a commercial plane coming from the Kansas city collided with a helicopter near Washington, D.C. All 67 people on both aircraft are believed to have died.

Investigators have retrieved the voice and data recorders from the passenger plane following Wednesday's crash which killed 67 people.