Midair collision of an army helicopter and a commercial flight.
Rescue operations ongoing in the Potomac River.
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Just stood on my back deck, eight miles from the airport.
The sky is pretty clear; visibility isn’t bad. But it’s seriously cold out there.
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Apparently no survivors. Kennedy Center cameras captured the crash, and you can see a fireball and then broken fragments falling into the water.
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Images like this make it very real.

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
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“Some of those onboard were figure skaters flying from Wichita, Kan., which had hosted the U.S. Figure Skating Championships earlier this month.”