Kansas, has taken the nonstop flight from Wichita to Washington, D.C., dozens of times since the route became available about a year ago. On Wednesday evening, a flight on that route collided with an Army helicopter as it descended toward Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington,

On Thursday, Kansas Senator Jerry Moran said the Wichita flight that crashed on its way to Washington D.C. was personal to him because he lobbied to make the flight. In July 2023, Moran working as Vice Chair of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation,

During a press conference about the Washington, D.C., plane crash that involved an American Airlines regional jet colliding with an Army Black Hawk helicopter, Senator Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, expressed his condolences and added that the flight is "personal" for him,