American Airlines confirmed to PEOPLE on Friday, Jan. 31, that flight 5342 will cease to exist. The airline is retiring the ...

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Everyone aboard a plane that collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., are feared dead, which would make it the ...

An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard has collided with an Army helicopter while coming in ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found no evidence of foul play and blamed the crash on errors by the pilot, who failed to retract the plane’s spoilers, or air brakes, at the critical ...

A midair collision at the Grand Canyon killed over 100. The disaster partially led to the start of the FAA and changed air traffic control laws.

Equipment failure led Flight 232 from Denver to Chicago to crash in Sioux City in 1989, killing more than 100 people.

Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The last was in 2009 near Buffalo, New York.

By Peter Baker Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent, is covering his sixth presidency and reported from Washington After TWA Flight 800 crashed in New York in 1996, President Bill ...

A midair collision near D.C. has raised concerns over FAA staffing, prompting scrutiny of air traffic control and aviation ...

Jan. 31, 2000: An Alaska Airlines flight crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Anacapa Island, Calif. The crash killed 83 passengers and five crew members. July 17, 1996: A Trans World Airlines ...