The plane departed Naples Municipal Airport March 29 and flew to Des Moines. It left Iowa and crashed in Minnesota.

FILE - A piece of wreckage is lifted from the water onto a salvage vessel near the site in the Potomac River of a mid-air ...

NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said there clearly was an issue with identifying trends in the data the Federal Aviation ...

During the hearing, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board and members of Congress again questioned how the FAA hadn’t noticed an alarming number of close calls near Ronald Reagan ...

The Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation, Space, and Innovation is holding a hearing Thursday morning focused on the ...

The FAA "is taking a series of steps to improve safety around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that follows the NTSB's recommendations," according to a news release. Advertisement The ...

NTSB Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said the location of helicopter Route 4 and the final approach path to DCA runway 33 was an "intolerable risk to aviation safety by increasing the chance of a ...

The FAA has removed helicopter routes 4 and 6 from the area around DCA and revised Route 7 to extend west of the airport. These changes are aimed at preventing future mid-air conflicts between ...

The FAA is making significant changes at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after the National Transportation Safety Board urged “immediate action” to improve safety in the wake of a ...

The NTSB found that helicopter routes established by the FAA lacked "defined lateral boundaries." Consequently, between October 2021 and December 2024 at DCA, there were 15,214 instances where ...

In the aftermath of the crash, the FAA temporarily barred most helicopters near the airport - located in Arlington, Virginia - until it could review the NTSB's initial findings. The NTSB cited the ...