The helicopter crew may have had bad information on the altitude from their altimeter, as the pilots had differing altitudes in the seconds before the crash, the NTSB said. One helicopter pilot ...

Helicopter crew in collision with plane may not have heard key instruction from tower, NTSB says National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said the recording from the Black ...

Radio altitude measures the height of an aircraft above a terrain, which in this case was the Potomac River, the NTSB said. This was recorded two seconds before the collision, Homendy said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The crew of the Army helicopter that collided in midair with an American Airlines jet near Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National Airport may have had inaccurate altitude ...

It will take more than a year to get the final NTSB report on the collision, and Homendy warned reporters that many issues were still being probed. “We’re only a couple weeks out,” from the ...

NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy told reporters on Friday that the helicopter’s cockpit voice recorder data suggested that an instruction from Reagan National Airport’s air traffic control tower to ...

It will take more than a year to get the final NTSB report on the collision, and Homendy warned reporters that many issues were still being probed. “We’re only a couple weeks out,” from the ...

It will take more than a year to get the final NTSB report on the crash, but officials have been providing regular updates as investigators learn more and they plan to publish a preliminary report ...

The NTSB is investigating whether the Black Hawk pilots received a key radio transmission from air traffic control due to a stepped-on message. The Black Hawk pilot was undergoing a check ride and ...

This information could be useful to the NTSB as the agency conducts its investigation in the U.S., according to a federal official. The Learjet 55 that crashed into a busy neighborhood in ...

The NTSB is on the scene of a plane crash near Nome, Alaska. Ten people died and tonight we know more about some of the passengers on board. NBC News' Dana Griffin has the latest. NASA to study ...

Tuesday’s update from the NTSB doesn’t fully clarify an already murky situation. Although the air traffic control display at Reagan National should have shown the Black Hawk was flying at ...