Just before Capt. Jonathan Campos boarded the ... A tribute to lives lost in the DC plane crash Robert Isom, the CEO of American Airlines, said the pilots were experienced. He said the captain ...

The responsibility of handling air traffic control for helicopters and incoming planes at Reagan National Airport were combined on Wednesday night ahead of a deadly collision, a report said.

He saw them just days before the crash while attending the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Kansas. "I actually sat with them for a nice visit in Wichita," Hamilton recalled Friday." ...

Republic Airways Flight 4514 was reportedly forced to "go-around" after spotting a helicopter in its flight path on Tuesday, Jan. 28 AP Photo/Alex Brandon One day before the midair crash in ...

A supervisor at the Reagan National Airport tower reportedly let an air traffic controller leave early from his shift shortly before Wednesday ... of the devastating crash, noting that staffing ...

Just 24 hours before Wednesday’s catastrophic plane crash over the Potomac in which a regional American Airlines jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter, another plane was forced to abort its ...

Just one day before the deadly crash between an American Airlines flight and Black Hawk near the nation’s capital on Wednesday evening, a passenger jet had to abort its initial landing at Ronald ...

Twenty-four hours before American Eagle Flight 5342 collided with a military helicopter in midair Wednesday night while on approach to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport, a separate flight out ...

That decision, according to the person who was briefed on the event and two other people who are familiar with the airport’s air traffic, happens routinely when regional jets such as the ...

Understaffing, poor working conditions and outdated technology have for years strained the system that keeps planes from crashing into each other. By David Enrich David Enrich edited a New York ...

Live Updates: Dc Plane Crash Investigators Recover American Airlines Black Boxes After Midair Collision However, on Wednesday, an air traffic control supervisor combined those duties sometime before 9 ...