Loved ones describe lives lost in air crash over Potomac
Crash victims included 60 passengers and four crew members on the plane that was just descending to land at Ronald Reagan ...
Helicopter in DC plane crash was flying twice as high as it should have, lacked new tech as FAA nixes all chopper traffic near collision site
The military helicopter that collided with an American Airlines flight over Washington, DC, was flying nearly twice as high ...
‘The sweetest human.’ Charlotte-based flight attendant mourned after DC plane crash
The 34-year-old was one of four Charlotte-based American Eagle flight 5342 crew members who died after the plane from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a military helicopter over Washington, D.C. A total ...
Air Force deportation flight skirts Mexican airspace to Guatemala as military's border role grows
A U.S. military plane with migrants bound at their wrists and ankles has left Texas bound for Guatemala carrying 80 deportees, eight of them children ...
Black boxes from D.C. plane crash in ‘good’ condition; salvage to start Saturday
Investigators confirmed they have recovered a cockpit voice recorder and a flight-data recorder from American Eagle Flight ...
No survivors after American Airlines flight collided with a military helicopter near Washington, DC
An American Airlines jet carrying 64 people collided Wednesday with a helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, ...
DC plane crash investigators recover American Airlines black boxes after midair collision
The National Transportation Safety Board says it has recovered a cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the ...
Is flying still safe? Here’s what experts say
But even accounting for serious accidents, "statistically speaking, you're safer in your flight than you were driving in your ...
Questions remain over staffing levels in control tower at time of deadly plane and helicopter crash
The position configuration was not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” the report said. A person familiar with ...
'Black box' flight data recorder recovered in DC plane crash: Recap
American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, was attempting to land when the plane and a Black Hawk helicopter ...
D.C. plane crash revives concerns about aviation safety and air traffic controller shortage
The fatal midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter followed a string of near misses ...
Opinion
The US’s first commercial plane crash fatalities happen over our most secure airspace — because of a military Black Hawk
A Washington DC plane crash marks the country's first commercial flight fatality in 16 years, and it happened over the most secure airspace in the country.