The athletes died in the Jan. 29 crash between American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. outside of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

But before he began his performance ... Keep reading to learn more about the American Airlines plane crash. (E! and Today are both part of the NBCUniversal family.) The passenger jet, a Canadian ...

(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein ... In January, an Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines regional jet landing at the ...

FILE - Rescue and salvage crews pull up a part of a Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet ... Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) ...

Testifying for the first time in front of the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation, acting Federal Aviation Administrator Chris Rocheleau admitted that "something was missed." ...

Earlier this year the US witnessed its worst mid air collison in 25 years when an American Airlines flight collided with an army helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport . The crash ...

Matthew Braman, center, answers questions during a Senate Transportation Subcommittee hearing Thursday on the Jan. 29 midair collision of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet ...

A congressional hearing Thursday reinforced the idea that the January midair collision between an American Airlines passenger ... in the three years before the crash, and collision alarms had ...