The fatal D.C. plane crash has renewed focus on the recent history of crashes and near misses in U.S. airspace.

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 ...

William Dunn, a former Marine Corps pilot, questions what the communication was between air traffic control, the plane and ...

Airlines have issued travel waivers to help passengers whose flights into and out of Washington, D.C., were affected ...

US airlines had gone 16 years without a fatal crash until Wednesday night. But as impressive as that safety record had been, ...

Southwest's CEO Bob Jordan said "our hearts go out" to people on the American Airlines flight involved in Wednesday night’s ...

Because of the tragic incident, Ronald Reagan National Airport will remain closed until at least 11 a.m. on Thursday.

Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The deadliest recent crash was in 2009 near Buffalo, ...

The last major collision of a commercial U.S. airline dates back to 2009, when a Colgan Air incident left 50 dead near ...

Search efforts continue after an American Airlines plane from Wichita, with 64 people on board, collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River.

Audio of air traffic control captured the moment that workers observed a Black Hawk helicopter colliding with a passenger jet ...

Nearly 70 people were killed in an aircraft collision Wednesday night near Washington, D.C. Are flights being delayed or ...