Large volumes pose challenges to air traffic control, which has faced severe staffing shortages for years, according to ...

An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while ...

Here are some of the deadliest commercial plane crashes in the U.S. since the Air Florida disaster according to reports from ...

Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The last was in 2009 near Buffalo, New York.

May 11, 1996: A Valujet Airlines flight crashed into the Everglades about 10 minutes after takeoff from the Miami ...

Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashed into a house in Clarence Center, killing everyone on board the plane.

It's been more than two decades since American Airlines, the nation's largest carrier, was involved in a deadly crash.

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

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 ...

An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National ...

Before Wednesday’s mid-air collision in Washington, the last fatal US passenger plane accident occurred in February 2009.

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