WASHINGTON – Central Wisconsin's Sean Duffy is facing his first big test as secretary of the Department of Transportation just one day after he was sworn into office. A commercial jet carrying 64 people collided in midair with an Army helicopter carrying three servicemembers Wednesday night near Washington,

Sean Duffy, recently appointed as Secretary of Transport under President Donald Trump, is facing mounting scrutiny following a mid-air collision over .

D: A regional commuter flight inbound from Wichita, Kansas has reportedly collided with a helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. Kansas Governor Laura Kelly confirmed the plane’s origin.

An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with a regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday evening, U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News.

Authorities believe there were no survivors after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter on Wednesday.

Sean Duffy, who was confirmed as the secretary for the Department of Transportation on Tuesday, added a post acknowledging the crash on X. In the post, he noted that he was posting from the headquarters for the Federal Aviation Authority in Washington,

No survivors are expected, authorities said Thursday, after a commercial flight and a helicopter collided in midair Wednesday night as the jet was about to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington,

According to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the Army helicopter was on an "annual proficiency training flight" and the three soldiers on board had night vision goggles.

An American Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter outside Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. Wednesday evening. Three soldiers were onboard the helicopter and a massive search and rescue operation is now unfolding in the Potomac River.

An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair with an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday.

An American Airlines regional jetliner coming from Wichita, Kansas, collided midair with a Black Hawk military helicopter near Washington D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, officials said.

Duffy was sworn into the Cabinet position just hours before an American Airlines passenger plane collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River