On Jan. 29, an American Airlines passenger plane and an Army helicopter collided near Washington, D.C., killing 67 people in the deadliest air disaster in more than two decades. Just days later, a Medevac jet crashed into a busy neighborhood in Philadelphia, killing seven people and injuring over 20 others.

Crews in Nome, Alaska, were conducting search-and-rescue operations after the report of a missing Bering Air caravan with 10 people aboard.