See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Pilots and flight attendants are aware of risks, but commercial aviation tragedies have been infrequent in the U.S. for years ...

Hundreds of families are in mourning after an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, with both aircraft plunging into the Potomac River near ...

A key safety system was turned off in a US army helicopter when it crashed into an American Airlines flight last week, ...

Andy Beyer went to Reagan National Airport to pick up his wife Justyne and 12-year-old daughter Brielle from a ice skating ...

A key safety system was turned off on the U.S. Army helicopter that collided with an American Airlines regional jet last week ...

The final words of Jonathan Campos, the pilot of the American Airlines jet that crashed and killed 64 people near Washington DC, have been released.