Family, friends, and colleagues will gather Saturday to remember two local women killed in the American Airlines plane crash in Washington, D.C., last month. Separate services are being held for Kiah Duggins and Lindsey Fields.

The filings over the collision of an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter last month appear to be the first such claim and signal the start of a long legal fight.

The wife of a Connecticut man who died in last month’s collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter in Washington, D