Officials want to permanently keep helicopters away from commercial jets taking off and landing at a busy Washington, D.C., airport after the deadliest U.S. aviation accident in more than two decades.

The FAA had closed two of DCA's three runways so investigators could piece together how the January accident occurred when an ...

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A Washington Post analysis of FAA maps shows the proximity of the flight path to a helicopter “tunnel” at a midair crossroads ...

Crews are trying to recover the plane’s cockpit and the rest of the remains of the 67 people who died in the midair collision ...

An image shared across social platforms purports to show first responders climbing atop the floating remains of the American ...

The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) staffers are accused of making an unauthorized copies of records of the Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet killed all 67 ...

Wreckage from the midair collision near Reagan National Airport is being removed Monday from the Potomac River as officials ...

Authorities say they have recovered the remains of 55 of the 67 people killed in the deadliest U.S. air disaster since 2001. Washington, D.C. Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly ...

A military helicopter was carrying out a secretive training mission when it collided with an American Airlines passenger jet, ...

The next steps in the fatal midair plane and helicopter crash investigation. And, why nuclear testing could ramp up in the ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Police boats combed the banks of the Potomac River on Friday, slowly scanning the shoreline in the rain ...