Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...

Then, two days before the anniversary, an American ... Alaska Airlines event comes amid a flurry of harrowing aviation incidents, including fatal crashes overseas. Six years ago, two Boeing ...

Here are some of the reasons why aircraft can catastrophically veer toward the ground like a medevac jet did in Philadelphia ...

It’s been one week since American Eagle Flight 5342 crashed into the Potomac River, and the work has only begun to recover ...

Wreckage from the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army helicopter have now been lifted from the Potomac ...

Investigators are currently working to download data from helicopter and jet black boxes to uncover additional information ...

A regional jet carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Reagan National Airport grounded all flights.

The investigation into the fatal American Airlines plane collision in Washington, D.C., is continuing. The Jan. 29 crash—which was the first major commercial air crash on U.S. soil since 2009 ...

The investigation into the fatal American Airlines plane collision in Washington, D.C., is continuing. The Jan. 29 crash—which was the first major commercial air crash on U.S. soil since 2009—claimed ...

Transportation safety investigators are seeking to determine if the pilots of the American Airlines plane detected danger just before the midair crash with a helicopter. By Mark Walker Mark Walker ...