Some passengers felt a little uneasy at BWI Thurgood Marshall on Thursday as they grappled with the news from officials that there were no survivors in the Flight 5342 crash in the Potomac.

The ties to Boston conjured up painful memories for Nathan Birch, a Baltimore skater who grew up training at that very same club. He remembered seeing memorials from the 1961 crash, which killed several Boston club members, on the walls and in an upstairs lounge.

The archbishops of Washington and Baltimore offered prayers on Thursday after a deadly plane crash near downtown Washington, D.C.

The Post spoke to several aviation experts about a number of factors that may have contributed to the fatal collision.

PAT-25, do you have the CRJ in sight?” the controller asks the helicopter pilot, according to audio posted by the Associated Press.

Passengers aboard a flight from New Orleans to Washington, D.C., witnessed a mid-air collision involving a Blackhawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet near Reagan National Airport.

As many as 60 passengers and four crew members were aboard American Eagle Flight 5342, and the Black Hawk helicopter was carrying three soldiers. There were no survivors.

After a passenger plane and military helicopter collided Wednesday night over the Potomac River in Washington, emergency responders from Maryland aided rescue efforts, and Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport received some planes that had been bound for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

A tragic crash occurred near Reagan National Airport, with a jet and an Army helicopter colliding in the Potomac River, leaving all on board feared dead.

Local aviation experts say the deadly plane collision near Washington, D.C., came down to one thing: a communication error. They say the Black Hawk helicopter most likely misjudged how close the American Airlines plane was, or could have called out what they thought were the lights of the plane but were not.

Flight data showed the plane coming from New Orleans looping around Reagan before heading to Baltimore moments after the collision. To jet was rerouted to Baltimore before 8:10 p.m. and landed at about 8:15 p.m., according to FlightAware .

Baltimore County figure skater Ting Cui was competing at U.S. Nationals in Wichita, Kansas, this week and knew several victims in the deadly plane crash in Washington, D.C. “The figure skating community is small,