Governor Ron DeSantis ordered flags to be flown at half-staff to honor the pilot of a commercial airliner who died when the plane collided with a Black Hawk helicopter in Virginia.

Funeral arrangements are now set for a Minnesota native who died in a plane crash last month in Washington, D.C. Wendy Jo Shaffer, 35, was raised in Mahtomedi and graduated from Mahtomedi High School.

"We cannot think of a more moving or sincere tribute than having all 5,000 team members nominate our fallen colleagues," the airline said in a statement.

Many of the people at the memorial at RDU on Sunday had connections to victims in the January 29 midair disaster.

An American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Jan. 29. Both aircraft plunged into the ...

All of the "major" pieces of wreckage from the collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines Flight 5342 ...

The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed 'all major pieces' of the American Airlines plane and Black Hawk ...

The wreckage of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines plane over the Potomac River in Washington DC has been removed from the crash site and is being examined by the ...

Sam Lilley, the first officer on American Airlines flight 5342 that fatally collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter, has landed back in Savannah one last time. The 28-year-old grew up in Richmond ...

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are examining the wreckage after an American Airlines plane and Black Hawk helicopter collided ...

Just hours after finding 10 people dead in western Alaska from one of the deadliest plane crashes in the state in 25 years, ...

All major pieces of the American Airlines plane and Black Hawk helicopter that collided last week in Washington, DC, have ...