Authorities have switched to a recovery mission in the Potomac River following a midair collision between an American Eagle ...

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An American Airlines flight crashed into a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter over the Potomac River as it approached Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

American Airlines retired the flight number 77 after it crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, per the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial. Eight years later, Air France Flight 447, an international ...

An American Airlines flight headed into Reagan National Airport 24-hours before the fatal crash Wednesday was forced into a last-minute go-around to avoid another aircraft — the second known ...

An American Airlines plane with 64 people on board collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., and crashed into ...

In the minutes before an American Airlines flight crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, an air traffic controller requested a last-minute runway change. The regional jet ...

By Mark Walker Mark Walker covers transportation, including aviation safety. American Airlines Flight 5342, a regional jet en route from Wichita, Kan., was zooming down and about to land at Ronald ...

according to public flight records — and less than 23 hours after an American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Washington, DC, at 8:48 p.m. Wednesday night ...

The collision is the deadliest domestic airplane accident since 2001, when American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into a neighborhood in Queens, New York, and killed 265 people.

And the D.C. tragedy was the worst loss of life in U.S. commercial air travel since November 2001, when American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into Belle Harbor, Queens, after taking off from JFK ...

On a recent flight to Miami, a pilot’s words just moments before takeoff offered assurance to a cabin of travelers rattled by Wednesday's midair collision of American Airlines Flight 5342 and a ...