Fifty years ago Friday, a midair collision over the Grand Canyon ... the modern air traffic control system, and the bureaucracy which manages it all. Safely back on the ground in Flagstaff ...

Students in Flagstaff Junior Academy (FJA) science classes recently visited the memorial for a 1956 plane crash over the Grand Canyon recently as part of a lesson connecting the science of ...

Through our series, Off the Mark, we report on historical markers, like one near the Grand Canyon that marks a historic plane crash ... Cemetery on the South Rim, a 90-minute drive from Flagstaff ...

This crash of two passenger planes would change the U.S. aviation industry in ways that are still felt today. Mid-air collisions were fairly common prior to the Grand Canyon accident: one 1956 ...

Air tours over the Grand Canyon were suspended Sunday as investigators tried to determine the cause of the crash. The quiet was ... of air disasters. A 1956 mid-air collision there killed 128 ...

AP FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The company whose helicopter was involved in a deadly crash at the Grand Canyon is adding crash-resistant fuel systems to its fleet. Papillon Airways announced an agreement ...

A tragic crash near the Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington left 67 dead after a commercial airliner and Army helicopter collided in midair on Wednesday night. Midair collisions are less common ...

In other words, much of the infrastructure of modern aviation security can be traced back to June 30, 1956, the day of the Grand Canyon mid-air collision. If you can turn a plane crash into a ...

Unlike the more tightly regulated air tours within Grand Canyon National Park, helicopters on tribal land function like an airborne shuttle service, quickly depositing tourists on landing pads for ...