Kansas senator describes 'unbearable sorrow'
In somber remarks at a news conference early Thursday morning, Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall suggested he feared the passengers and crew aboard a regional American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter that collided were lost.
"When one person dies, it's a tragedy," Marshall said. "But when many, many, many people die, it's an unbearable sorrow … It's really hard when you lose, you know, probably over 60 Kansans, simultaneously."
Speaking of the pilots, flight attendants and military personnel, Marshall added, "All those lives are so valuable, and it is such a tragedy that we lost them."

Officials have not publicly confirmed any fatalities. There were 64 people aboard the jet and three aboard the helicopter.
Fellow Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran said he knows the flight pattern of Flight 5342 well.
I've flown it many times myself," Moran said, adding that he lobbied American Airlines to add direct, nonstop flight service from Wichita to Reagan National.