It doesn't feel like it after the catastrophic loss of life over the Potomac, but commercial airlines are the world's safest ...

We all know that commercial airplanes spend their active service lives cross-crossing continents, ferrying passengers from ...

Collisions like the one between an American Airlines plane and a helicopter over the Potomac River in D.C. this week have led ...

What is a black box, what can it tell us, and have the data recorders been found from Flight 5342 and the Army's Blackhawk?

and that it looked higher than it should have been and it was in a flight path of an approaching aircraft.” It was the first time in modern US history that a commercial airliner was involved in ...

Wednesday's crash involving an American Airlines flight and Black Hawk helicopter marked the first commercial crash on U.S.

A regional passenger plane collided with a U.S. Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29 in a crash that officials ...

The commercial passenger plane that collided with a Black Hawk chopper over the icy Potomac River in Washington, DC, ...

But it’s also worth keeping some perspective as we do. If you are flying on a commercial airliner in the United States or Europe, the odds of survival are greatly in your favor, according to ...