Near Misses, Fatal Crashes Force Airlines to Confront Worried Fliers April 16, 2025 By Mary Schlangenstein and Allyson Versprille A series of aviation accidents has rattled flyers enough to drag down ticket sales at the start of the year,...
FAA Grounds Helicopter Company After Fatal New York Crash April 15, 2025 By Myles Miller The Federal Aviation Administration ordered New York Helicopter Charter Inc. to cease operations while it conducts a review of the...
FAA Must Do Better After Midair Collision, Acting Chief Says March 27, 2025 By Allyson Versprille The US Federal Aviation Administration said it must improve the way it identifies potentially risky air-traffic situations, following a deadly...
Transportation Chief to Unveil Plan to Upgrade Air Traffic Control March 24, 2025 By David Shepardson Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will unveil a plan next week to upgrade the aging, under-staffed U.S. air traffic control system...
Airlines Want Less Helicopter Traffic Near Washington Airport March 4, 2025 By David Shepardson A group representing U.S. airlines plans to urge federal aviation officials to permanently reduce helicopter traffic around Reagan National Airport...
Family of Man Killed in Copter-Plane Midair Collision Files $250 Million Claim February 19, 2025 By Andrew G. Simpson The family of a Connecticut man killed in the January 29 collision of an American Airlines plane with a military...
Helicopter Crew in Collision With Plane May Not Have Heard Key Instruction: NTSB February 18, 2025 By Josh Funk, Tim Sullivan and Gary Fields The crew of the Army helicopter that collided in midair with an American Airlines jet near Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan...
Washington Crash Investigators Complete Interviews, Probe Plane Wreckage, Flight Logs February 4, 2025 By Jasper Ward and David Shepardson The National Transportation Safety Board said on Monday it has completed interviews with air traffic controllers in its investigation into...
Near-Misses at Washington Airport Worried Pilots Long Before Fatal Crash February 3, 2025 By Dan Catchpole, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Allison Lampert U.S. commercial pilot Rick Redfern was preparing to land at Reagan Washington National Airport about a decade ago when he...
Medical Transport Plane Crash in Philadelphia Leaves 7 Dead, 19 Injured February 2, 2025 By Danny Lee and Hari Govind A Medevac plane that crashed in Northeast Philadelphia killed one person on the ground and left 19 others hospitalized, in...