The move follows federal investigators's call for a ban on helo flights on the route, citing a string of near misses in ...

The agency says the approved helicopter route is too close to the approach to the runway where an American Eagle plane was ...

The Federal Aviation Administration announced a "series of steps" it will take to address safety concerns after a fatal ...

A US oversight subcommittee has opened an investigation into the military’s use of airspace around Washington DC following a ...

The investigation into a January midair collision that killed 67 people near Washington, D.C., revealed an alarming number of ...

Aviation officials on Friday announced permanent curbs on helicopter traffic near Reagan National Airport, the site of a ...

A preliminary analysis of the flight data and voice recorder on board a Black Hawk helicopter leading up to the collision with a commercial flight over Washington, DC, on January 29, indicated the ...

The National Transportation Safety Board uncovered more than 15,000 “near-miss events” between helicopters and jets at Reagan ...

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy speaks during a news conference Friday in Washington about the fatal Black Hawk-jet collision on Jan. 29. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP ...

A U.S. Army Black Hawk crew may not have heard critical air traffic control messages instructing it to fly behind the commercial regional jet it ultimately collided with midair at Reagan National ...

The crew also may not have clearly heard that the American Airlines flight was “circling” in the DC airspace, investigators found. The Black Hawk collided with Flight 5342, which was en route ...

"We as a group can never go back to just getting on a plane and trusting that everything will be OK," one relative told Newsweek.