One controller, rather than the usual two, was handling both plane and helicopter traffic at the time of the crash. A supervisor allowed another air traffic controller to leave early, according to ...

An American Airlines plane with 64 passengers and crew collided mid-air with a military helicopter yesterday (29 January) as it approached Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington ...

Facebook screengrab from the Arlington Historical Society A catastrophic plane crash Wednesday, Jan. 29, in the Washington, D.C., area continues a long history of fatal accidents involving U.S ...

A rare tragedy shocked the nation when an American Airlines plane collided with a military helicopter near Washington, D.C. The mid-air crash was reported near Reagan Washington National Airport ...

By Kate Selig Ari Schulman, a magazine editor, was driving to his home in Virginia on Wednesday evening past Ronald Reagan National Airport when he saw a plane coming in for landing — wings ...

“We’re family, and it’s a community and the skaters — the people who were on that plane — they’re our family, too. “I certainly don’t have any answers. I really can’t believe ...

Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The deadliest recent crash was in 2009 near Buffalo, New York. All 45 passengers and the four crew members were killed when the ...

Naumov and Shishkova’s son, Maxim, had competed in the figure skating championships this past weekend but was not on the plane, according to Reuters. “Our sport and club have suffered a ...

Seventy-seven years ago, a chartered Douglas DC-3 aircraft left Oakland with 28 Mexican nationals being sent back to México. Most were “braceros,” the slang term for Mexican laborers once ...

Followed categories will be added to My News. Police in Nyngan, NSW, said a light aircraft declared an emergency just after 11am on Friday. Aviation authorities contacted police to let them know ...