A man whose wife was on the doomed American Airlines Flight 5342 has revealed his heartbreaking final texts to her before the crash.

Hamaad Raza revealed his 26-year-old wife was on board the tragic flight from Wichita, Kansas to Washington when it collided with a military helicopter just before 9pm on Wednesday night.

Emergency services in the city are searching the Potomac River near the airport following the incident.

‘I’m just praying that somebody’s pulling her out of the river right now, as we speak. That’s all I can pray for, I’m just praying to God,’ Raza told WUSA9.

Raza revealed the plane was so close to landing that his wife got reception and was able to text him immediately before the crash.

Raza then showed the reporter, who described it as ‘one of the most heartbreaking interviews of my professional career’ what he’d sent her on his phone.

‘She texted me that they were landing in 20 minutes. The rest of my texts didn’t get delivered and that’s when I realized that something might be up,’ he said.

The man said his wife had gone to Wichita for work but that she’d never felt comfortable flying.