Forty-three years ago, the D.C. region was rocked by an air disaster that claimed 78 lives. On a snowy January afternoon, Air ...

According to the FAA report, “At 1559, Flight 90 was cleared to "taxi into position and hold" and to "be ready for an ...

This incident marks a tragic event in the same vicinity where, in 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the river under similar circumstances ... The impact caused the aircraft to plummet into the ...

Following the deadly crash of an American Airlines commercial craft and a military helicopter, it's hard not to recall a ...

Joseph Stiley, now 86, used his in-flight experience to avoid ... but somehow made it out of the Potomac. In the wake of the most recent disaster, there were no survivors. There were 60 passengers ...

Between the volume of air traffic and the variety of aircraft, the airspace in the Washington area remains among the most complicated and restricted in the country.

Joseph Stiley, 86, of Puerto Escondido, Mexico, was flying out of Washington National Airport with his assistant when he knew ...

Even as crews continue to comb the Potomac River ... U.S. air disaster in 16 years. A crane removes airplane wreckage from the Potomac River, where American Airlines flight 5342 collided with ...

Before American Eagle Flight ... heard: “Crash! Crash! Crash!” he recalled. As members of the union rushed to a pier to board a fireboat, burning debris rained down over the Potomac.

also died in the crash. Salvage crews have retrieved two “black boxes” from the plane — a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder — and one from the helicopter, which could help ...