In order to enable safe flight, airspace is split into categories ranging from very tightly controlled areas around airports ...

According to investigators, the jet was cleared to land at a shorter runway just minutes before at Reagan National. The ...

A 3-D model created by The Times visualizes the helicopter pilots’ field of view minutes before a fatal crash with a jet in ...

On Tuesday night, just 24 hours before a deadly collision between a military helicopter and a regional jet at Reagan National Airport, a different passenger jet coming in for a landing at the ...

The helicopter should therefore have given way to the passenger jet. The crew of the Black Hawk should also have sought permission from ATC to “cross the active”, meaning to fly over the ...

The Army pilots were juggling dark skies, low altitude, a busy airspace and a cockpit without certain traffic detectors ...

The cellphone footage provides the clearest angle yet of Wednesday’s tragic midair collision in Washington, DC, that killed ...

A regional jet that had departed from Wichita, Kansas, crashed into a Blackhawk while on approach to Ronald Reagan National ...

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The Black Hawk helicopter was training to evacuate government officials in the event of a catastrophe when the collision with the passenger jet occurred. The agency is still working to transcribe ...