Fatal crashes like the one that happened near Washington on Wednesday are increasingly rare because of modern aviation safety ...

Since its creation in 1967, the agency reports it has investigated more than 153,000 aviation accidents and incidents.

Divers are expected to return to the Potomac River as part of the recovery and investigation after the United States' ...

Reagan airport faced warnings over its packed airspace for years. More flights were approved anyway - ‘We’ve been pretty ...

Investigators have already recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder of the American Airlines plane that ...

Black boxes have been recovered from the crashed American Airlines plane, with tests being carried out in a laboratory. Meanwhile, air traffic control audio has revealed another flight at the same ...

Air crash investigations can take months, and federal investigators told reporters they would not speculate on the cause.

Divers are expected to return to the Potomac River on Friday as part of the recovery and investigation after a midair ...

Emergency teams will continue efforts to retrieve the bodies of those who died when a passenger jet and helicopter collided.

Air crash investigations can take months, and federal investigators told reporters they would not speculate on the cause.

Staffing was thin in the air traffic control tower at Washington's Reagan National airport at the time of the deadly crash ...