Wichita's Eisenhower National Airport experienced passenger growth and American Airlines added a direct flight to DC a year before the deadly crash.

American Airlines is set to resume flights from Wichita, Kan., to Washington, DC on Friday, according to reports and publicly available data. The flights from The Sunflower State to the nation’s capital had been halted after American Airlines Flight 5342 had a midair collision with a helicopter on its approach to Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night,

Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower Airport set up a memorial for the 64 victims lost on an American Airlines flight that crashed before landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport on Wednesday.

Let’s just commit to caring for one another, praying for each other, especially families of victims, and simply keep remembering the Lord’s promises to guide us in times like these.”

“Crash, crash, crash”: Air traffic controllers react as an American Airlines passenger jet carrying 64 people collides with a military Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night over the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.

Officials held a news conference at the Kansas airport - where the American Airlines jet took off from - talking about the crash in D.C.

People gathered in Wichita on Thursday to mourn the victims who died when a passenger plane and an Army helicopter collided near Washington, D.C.

A man, who has worked at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport for more than two decades, shares his reactions to the news, that an American Airlines flight, with 60 passengers on board, four crew members,

The jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at the airport.

More than 60 people are believed to be dead after a passenger plane collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night near Washington, D.C.

An American Airlines flight going from Wichita to Washington, D.C., went down in the Potomac River after colliding with a military Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday. It comes just one year after Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport started offering nonstop flights to Washington.

Eisenhower National Airport finished 2024 strong with a monthly record of 154,367 passengers, beating the previous high of 149,934 in December 2019. It then started 2025 with Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) announcing additional flights to Minneapolis and Atlanta.