The grim event recalls the last time a major airline crash occurred, when Flight 3407 departed from New Jersey nearly 16 years ago.

An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard has collided with an Army helicopter while coming in for a landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D

While landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday shortly before 9 p.m., American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the icy Potomac River.

A midair crash between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington D.C. is likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in

The aviation safety law passed under pressure from the Flight 3407 families meant that pilots are better trained and better rested. The skies are safer as a result, Zremski writes.

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.

President-elect Donald Trump's will be sworn in under the Capitol Rotunda, rather than outside. But he's not the only president inaugurated in an unusual location.

Authorities have switched to a recovery mission in the Potomac River following a midair collision between an American Eagle flight and an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport in Washington,

Wednesday night’s crash of an American Airlines commuter plane in Washington could be one of the worst disasters for the Fort Worth-based airline in more than two decades.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz was at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when American Airlines Flight 5342 crashed Wednesday night. He reflected on how the tragic evening unfolded.

In all, 67 people are feared dead after an American Airlines flight collided with a military helicopter over Washington, D.C.

An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River.