From the perspective of the helicopter cockpit, the lights of the incoming American Airlines jet could have also been ...
Concerns that a deadly collision could occur at Reagan National Airport had long been building. But attempts to draw attention to potentially dangerous conditions sometimes went unheeded.
Pilots who agree initiate a swooping turn that on final approach brings them northwest and low across the river — the path ...
Newly released data from ground-based radar came out Tuesday suggesting an Army helicopter was higher than it was supposed to ...
A 3-D model created by The Times visualizes the helicopter pilots’ field of view minutes before a fatal crash with a jet in ...
That's the same flight path that that plane and helicopter crashed last night on. Now, many have been wondering how did all ...
But on Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration paused almost all helicopter flights from operating near the airport, with exceptions for police and emergency response. The president’s ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Airline pilots flying into Washington, D.C., have reported nearly a dozen near misses that were scarily similar to this week’s midair collision that killed 67 people — the ...
The FAA confirmed that a "CRJ700 regional jet collided in midair with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while on approach to Runway 33 at Reagan Washington National Airport." The flight had taken off ...
FlightAware, a site that tracks flight paths, shows Republic Airways Flight 4514 − bound for the same airport − departed from Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut ...