The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found no evidence of foul play and blamed the crash on errors by the pilot, who failed to retract the plane’s spoilers, or air brakes, at the critical ...

Richard Anderson said politicians exacerbated the flying challenges at the small airport by adding flights to their home ...

All 78 people aboard died. An improperly installed device to boost power to the wing ailerons that control flight caused a Northwest Orient Airlines Electra to crash after takeoff from O’Hare ...

The red line shows the final approach of American Airlines 5342 to runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard has collided with an Army helicopter while coming in ...

Warren had been investigating the crash of the world’s first commercial jet airliner, the Comet, in 1953, and thought it would be helpful for airline accident investigators to have a recording ...

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

Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The last was in 2009 near Buffalo, New York.

Three victims of the deadly Washington, D.C., plane crash have Ohio ties, and the airline involved has a connection to Ohio.

16 Aug, 1987: A Northwest Airlines flight crashed just after taking off in Romulus, Michigan, striking light poles, a rental car facility and the ground. The crash killed 148 passengers and six ...