American Airlines CEO Robert Isom said the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the deadly midair collision between an American passenger jet and a military helicopter, will be the lone authority on the cause and details of the crash.

After a D.C.-bound American Airlines commercial regional jet crashed into an Army helicopter while attempting to land at Reagan National Airport, questions surrounding flight communications are among key details federal investigators will probe.

No chute or slides appeared to be deployed from the American Airlines plane, according to J. Todd Inman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board. “It was a very quick, rapid impact,” he said.

Republic Airways Flight 4514 was reportedly forced to "go-around" after spotting a helicopter in its flight path on Tuesday, Jan. 28

Officials from the NTSB reiterated local authorities’ belief that there were no survivors in the deadly Wednesday, Jan. 29 midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington,

A pair of black boxes has been recovered from the American Airlines jet involved in a mid-air collision with a military helicopter, which left no survivors.

An FAA spokesman said the agency could not comment on the ongoing investigation, which is being led by the National Transportation Safety Board

Olympian Scott Hamilton is mourning the deaths of members of the figure skating community, who were on an American Airlines flight that crashed into an Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C.

Latest news and live updates after an American Airline jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River.

The National Transportation Safety Board said the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the American Airlines jet that collided with the Black Hawk helicopter have been recovered from the wreckage in the Potomac River and are now at the NTSB labs for evaluation.

Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are feared dead as a recovery mission is underway.

Clues emerging from the moments before an Army helicopter collided with a passenger jet suggest breakdowns in the system meant to help aircraft land safely at the busy Reagan National Airport.