Search efforts continue after an American Airlines plane from Wichita, with 64 people on board, collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found no evidence of foul play and blamed the crash on errors by the pilot, who failed to retract the plane’s spoilers, or air brakes, at the critical ...
TAMPA, Fla. — A bird strike forced a Southwest Airlines flight to turn around shortly after take-off and return to Tampa ...
The American Airlines plane operating as American Eagle Flight 5342 collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan ...
Southwest Airlines is getting set to completely overhaul its seating setup, with its first-ever assigned and extra-legroom ...
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an ex-Army Black Hawk pilot, said communications between airline and military pilots usually go through ...
Pilots rely on many safety systems when flying into the busy airspace over the capital on the approach to Reagan National ...
According to Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, both the helicopter and the American Eagle flight were in a "standard flight pattern" as the latter was on final approach to DCA. The collision and ...
Wednesday night’s crash of an American Airlines commuter plane in Washington could be one of the worst disasters for the Fort ...
Wednesday's crash involving an American Airlines flight and Black Hawk helicopter marked the first commercial crash on U.S.
US airlines had gone 16 years without a fatal crash until Wednesday night. But as impressive as that safety record had been, ...