U.S. and Russian figure skaters were on board a doomed American Airlines passenger jet that collided with a military Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night.

Officials confirmed American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter on approach to a runway at Reagan Washington National Airport in Virginia.

Both aircraft plunged into the Potomac River after the mid-air collision. There are no survivors. 60 passengers and four crew members were on board the passenger jet.

30 bodies were pulled from the Potomac River overnight. Reagan Washington National Airport is still closed to air traffic while the recovery operation is ongoing.

American figure skater Spencer Lane uploaded a photo on his Instagram Stories around 7pm ET Wednesday. The image appeared to show the doomed jet taxiing on the runway at Wichita Airport in Kansas before it took off headed for Washington, DC.

Lane, 26, captioned the image ICT -> DCA – the codes for Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Other American figure skating team members were on the doomed jet. They were expected to compete at the next winter Olympics, according to DailyMail.com.

The team members were returning home to the Washington, DC area after attending a National Development Camp for young skaters in Kansas.

The Kremlin confirmed late Wednesday that former Russian world champion figure skaters were also on board the passenger jet.

Married Russian figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova, 53, and Vadim Naumov, 56, were traveling back to the DC area on Flight 5342 after attending the US Figure Skating Championships in Kansas. They lived in the U.S. since 1998 and worked as figure skating coaches.

Shishkova and Naumov won the world championship in pairs figure skating in 1994.

Their son, Maxim Naumov, 23, a prominent Team USA skater, did not fly with them. A teammate said he left Wichita, Kansas on another flight on Monday.

A military spokesperson said the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was on a “training flight” with 3 pilots on board.

Air traffic controllers cleared the American Airlines plane to land on the shorter Runway 33 and the pilot confirmed changing its approach to the new runway.

Less than 30 seconds before the crash, an air traffic controller asked the military helicopter (call sign PAT25) if it saw the descending plane (call sign CRJ).

“PAT25 do you see a CRJ? PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ,” the air traffic controller said.

Moments later, at 8:48 pm ET, the Black Hawk helicopter flew collided into the descending plane at 200 feet in the air.

Someone tell me how this is not intentional ?

A Blackhawk casually running into an American Airlines passenger plane?

Come on. #planecrash #potomac #DC #Reagan

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American Airlines flight 5342 was traveling at a speed of 140mph when it collided with the helicopter.

Seconds before the crash, the helicopter appeared to make a sharp right turn into the path of a departing American Airlines Boeing 737 which can accommodate up to 230 passengers.

The helicopter then changed course again and flew into flight 5342 as it made its final approach into Reagan National.