House and Senate lawmakers from Kansas released a bipartisan statement on the tragic American Airlines crash Wednesday night in Washington, D.C.

A devastating plane crash this week has drawn Wichita — known as the "air capital of the world" — and its aviation roots into the national spotlight.

Anybody who has spent time in D.C., the sky is always full of helicopters. And no one’s willing to say, ‘No, we just can’t have this.’”