Every plane crash is a tragic loss, but the aviation industry as a whole makes sure to improve after each one.

The crash seems to have resulted from a series of human errors that cascaded to cause a freak accident. This past week has ...

A week ago today, the lives of 67 families were forever changed, and hundreds of others will never be the same.

Joseph Stiley, now 86, used his in-flight experience to avoid death in the 1982 plane crash on the Potomac River. Almost ...

Between the volume of air traffic and the variety of aircraft, the airspace in the Washington area remains among the most complicated and restricted in the country.

The Army withheld the name of Capt. Rebecca Lobach, the US Army pilot killed in a disastrous crash on Wednesday, for an extra ...

A significant issue may have stemmed from the military Blackhawk helicopter involved in the collision - the lack of the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) in military helicopters.

Police boats combed the banks of the Potomac River on Friday, slowly scanning the shoreline in the rain as investigators sought clues into the midair collision that killed 67 people and raised ...

A pair of black boxes has been recovered from the American Airlines jet involved in a mid-air collision with a military ...

But even accounting for serious accidents, "statistically speaking, you're safer in your flight than you were driving in your ...

A midair collision at the Grand Canyon killed over 100. The disaster partially led to the start of the FAA and changed air ...