The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Monday it is investigating the close call between a commercial Delta ...

Delta Air Lines Flight 2983 Airbus A319 narrowly avoids midair collision with U.S. Air Force T-38 near Reagan Washington ...

"Was there an actual aircraft about 500 feet below us?," a pilot can be heard asking air traffic control in audio obtained by ...

Delta Air Lines Flight 2983 was cleared for takeoff on Friday around 3:15 p.m., the same time four U.S. Air Force T-38 Talon ...

open image in gallery A vigil is held at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum for the 28 skaters, family members and coaches who died in last week’s plane crash ... to the DC area from a ...

On Jan. 29, an American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members collided with a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers while the plane was coming in ...

The NTSB noted that the airport has inadequate separation distance for landing aircraft, leading to a significant safety concern. This prompted the first recommendation: banning helicopters from ...

About the crash: All 67 people on the aircraft — 64 on the American Airlines ... how upsetting the data was for the close calls at the DC airport. “The data was there, it wasn’t effectively ...

Duffy agreed, telling reporters during a separate news conference the “data was there” but “it wasn’t effectively analyzed to see that we had this kind of risk” at the DC-area airport.

The crash occurred at an altitude just under 300 feet as the plane descended toward its assigned runway. The helicopter was flying above the 200-foot limit for its assigned route. While the ...