Jon Maravilla, the U.S. figure skater who was in Kansas with his teammates, said he was not allowed to board a plane because of his dog, but not the American Airlines flight that collided with a U.S.

There were 14 members of the figure skating community reportedly aboard the plane that collided mid-air with a military helicopter.

An American figure skater was barred from the American Airlines flight that collided with a U.S. Army helicopter near Reagan International Airport on Thursday night.

A multi-agency search and rescue operation is underway in the Potomac River after a small American Airlines aircraft collided with an Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport, authorities confirmed.

Skater Jon Maravilla told The Daily Beast on Thursday that he was going to Atlanta, not D.C., but couldn't board because of his dog.

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WASHINGTON — Officials said that all on board the American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter from Fort Belvoir army base were killed when the helicopter collided.

Kansas officials are sharing what they know after an American Airlines flight that departed from Wichita crashed in Washington, D.C., Wednesday night.

A Russian media outlet originally reported that Maravilla was set to be among the passengers on board the fateful American Airlines flight before he was barred due to the size of his dog.

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The captain flying the plane with 64 aboard was schooled in Florida. A Blackhawk helicopter collided with Flight 5342 near Ronald Reagan airport.

A figure skater said to have a ticket on Wednesday’s doomed American Airlines flight was actually bound for another city entirely, he tells the Daily Beast, contrary to a viral report online. Jon Maravilla said his dog’s size was the reason a gate agent denied him boarding for a flight on Delta Air Lines to Atlanta—not to the nation’s capital.