The CEO of GE Aerospace says an employee was on the American Airlines flight involved in a fatal mid-air collision with an Army helicopter.

American Airlines Flight 5342 hit an Army helicopter near Washington D.C.’s Reagan National Wednesday night, sending the two ...

U.S. authorities restricted helicopter flights near Reagan Washington National Airport on Friday, after a midair collision ...

Reports by pilots and government investigators show how concerns over coordinating airplane and helicopter traffic at Reagan National Airport go back decades.

Divers are expected to return to the Potomac River as part of the recovery and investigation after the United States’ ...

A day before the fatal collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and a plane, a Republic Airlines flight approaching Reagan ...

Airline pilots flying into Washington, D.C., have reported nearly a dozen near misses that were scarily similar to this ...

As federal officials continue investigating what caused the deadliest U.S. air crash in almost a quarter century, ...

Recent airplane incidents and close calls nationwide have raised concerns of safety protocols, and in a news conference on ...

But even accounting for serious accidents, "statistically speaking, you're safer in your flight than you were driving in your car to the airport," said Brickhouse, who has decades of experience in ...

While some reports suggest the helicopter pilot may have mistaken another plane for the American Airlines jet, Katz believes it was more likely human error.