A deadly midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter near the nation’s capital is bringing ...

The National Transportation Safety Board says it has recovered two so-called “black boxes” from the American Airlines ...

The airspace around Washington, D.C., is congested and complex — a combination aviation experts have long worried could lead to catastrophe.

Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are feared dead as a recovery ...

Sixty-seven people are presumed dead after a passenger plane on approach to Reagan National Airport near Washington, DC, collided Wednesday night with a US Army helicopter midair, sending both ...

D.C. police confirmed a crash had taken place over the Potomac and that search and rescue operations were taking place in the ...

An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with a regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday evening, U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News.

Before the additional flights were approved, a senator warned that the increase could heighten the risk of collisions.

Last year, senators from Virginia and Maryland sounded the alarm over congestion in the skies above Washington.

According to a report by the FAA, one air traffic controller was working two positions at the time of the crash.