The collision occurred moments before the jet was set to land, sending both aircraft into the Potomac River. Rescue crews have recovered 27 bodies from the plane and one from the helicopter.

The Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines plane was alerted to the plane’s presence by air control twice, the first time at least two minutes before the deadly crash ...

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Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday they had determined the CRJ-700 airplane was at 325 feet (99 meters), plus or minus 25 feet, at the time of impact.

The plane, American Eagle Flight No. 5342, a regional jetliner, was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members on a flight from Wichita, Kansas. There were three soldiers aboard the U.S. Army's ...

A passenger on board a United Airlines flight from Houston to New York captured wild video of the wing of the plane catching on fire during takeoff Sunday morning. Passengers and crew on United ...

More victims of the deadly Army helicopter and plane collision were recovered this weekend, D.C. Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly said Sunday. Eleven of the victims were removed on Saturday as ...

Fourteen members of the U.S. Figure Skating team—not including parents and coaches—were onboard the plane to Washington D.C. returning from a training camp that took place after the U.S ...

No survivors are expected, officials said. Sixty-four people were on the plane, which departed from Wichita, Kansas. Three Army soldiers were aboard the helicopter, which was on a training flight ...

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The helicopter was on a training mission when it collided Wednesday night with a commercial plane that was on approach to land at Washington’s Reagan National Airport, killing all 64 aboard the ...

Federal accident investigators on Saturday said the commercial plane involved in Wednesday’s deadly crash in Washington appears to have tried to pull up a second before it collided with a U.S ...