Airlines for America calls on the Federal Aviation Administration to permanently suspend some helicopter routes near the airport with limited exceptions for essential military or medical emergencies.

"It shouldn’t take tragedy to require immediate action," she said. Under the current practice, helicopters and planes can be as close as 75 feet apart from each other during landing, Homendy said.

The jet’s flight recorded the American Airlines plane flying at around 313 feet when impact occurred, while the Reagan tower read the chopper as flying at 278 feet. The ceiling for helicopters ...

29 when the military helicopter collided with an American Airlines jet over the Potomac River as the plane was approaching the airport. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he’ll adopt the ...

Some helicopter flights at Washington's Reagan National Airport should be banned amid an "intolerable risk" of collisions with planes, crash investigators have said. It comes after 67 people were ...

The FAA has removed helicopter routes 4 and 6 from the area around DCA and revised Route 7 to extend west of the airport. These changes are aimed at preventing future mid-air conflicts between ...

The National Transportation Safety Board has provided an update on the investigation into January's deadly crash between a passenger plane and a military helicopter. The aircraft collided on January ...

29 when the military helicopter collided with an American Airlines jet over the Potomac River as the plane was approaching the airport. Helicopters no longer will be “threading the needle ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators looking for the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people recommended a ...

Route 4 is the same path taken by the Army Black Hawk helicopter when it collided with Flight 5342 just seconds before the plane was to land. The flight path covers Hains Point, located across the ...