Before Wednesday’s crash near Washington, D.C., there had not been a fatal collision involving a commercial aircraft in the ...

Nearly 46 years ago, this disaster claimed the lives of 273 people, with 258 being passengers, 13 crew members, and 2 ...

While authorities focus on the cause of the US's deadliest aviation disaster since 2001, families are mourning their loved ...

It was, in short, the kind of plane that makes it easy to fear for your life. By contrast, I hadn’t been concerned at all—and ...

An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

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 ...

Emergency teams will continue efforts to retrieve the bodies of those who died when a passenger jet and helicopter collided.

A timeline of the Washington, D.C., plane crash on Jan. 29 details the moments before and after an American Airlines ...

A deadly midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter near the nation's capital is bringing ...

The Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet and Black Hawk helicopter both crashed into the icy Potomac River after colliding midair.

American Eagle Flight 5342 en route from Wichita, Kansas (ICT), to Washington, D.C. (DCA) was involved in an accident at DCA.

With no survivors expected, the Jan. 29 midair collision between an American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army Black Hawk ...