Other times, airports hold full drills, in which fire officials set an airplane-shaped simulator ... have become disaster victims, their families and friends. Burton said other airport workers ...

Tenerife Airport Disaster, when two Boeing 747s collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport in the Canary Islands, causing 583 people to lose their lives. This tragedy, caused by a lethal ...

On Tuesday night, one day before the disaster, a pilot on a different regional jet attempting to land at National Airport told air traffic controllers that their plane would have to make a second ...

When the FAA reauthorization bill was considered last year by Congress, adding flight slots to the busy airport was a major point of contention, with Kaine and other local lawmakers citing safety ...

Reagan National Airport was closed for hours Friday after an American Airlines jet collided with a military helicopter. There were 64 people on board the American Airlines flight and three in the ...

collided with a Sikorsky UH-60 helicopter just before 9 p.m. Wednesday in Washington, D.C., on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The crash victims included a group of figure ...

and a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The collision occurred ... make the crash the most fatal aviation disaster on U.S. soil in 23 years.

Authorities said Thursday morning they believe there were no survivors in the crash between a regional American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army helicopter late Wednesday at Ronald Reagan Washington ...

Reuters US authorities said on Thursday it was not yet clear why a regional jet crashed into a U.S. Army helicopter at a Washington airport, killing 67 people in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in ...