Andy Beyer lost his wife, Justyna, and their daughter, Brielle, in Wednesday’s plane collision.

He remembers his 12-year-old daughter, who survived a rare cancer when she was just an infant, as “someone who was just meant to sparkle.”

“And she did,” Beyer said. “She was a beautiful singer, had a beautiful voice. She used to fill the house with just whatever was on her mind — Taylor Swift, and lately, ‘Wicked.'”

The 12-year-old and her mother Justyna were in Wichita where Brielle was completing ice skating training since last week.

“Six days was the longest we had ever been apart, and it was, it was hard,” Beyer said. “I really missed them. I was really looking forward to giving them a hug.”

The Federal Aviation Administration will restrict helicopter traffic around Reagan International Airport effective today, according to Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.

The Pentagon has launched its own investigation into how an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger plane over the Potomac River near Reagan Washington Regional Airport.

Like much of the skating community, Olympic champion Brian Boitano is mourning the loss of friends and colleagues who died in this week’s deadly midair plane collision.

“We are a tight-knit community, and we are all connected to each other,” he said, adding that his friends were not only champion skaters and elite athletes but also great representatives for the sport who were kind and caring.

They were minutes from landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., when their plane collided with an Army helicopter over the Potomac River.

In a horrible flash captured on video and seen around the world, the fates of all 60 passengers and four crew members aboard American Eagle Flight 5342 and the three soldiers on the Black Hawk helicopter were sealed.

The plane’s passengers included more than a dozen people returning from a training camp following the 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, where the flight originated.

For more about the victims, read here.