As D.C. plane crash victims are identified, stories emerge of a new dad, a law professor, champion skating coaches and rising stars
We are learning more about some of the 67 victims aboard the American Eagle plane and Black Hawk helicopter that collided ...
Nothing handed to generations of women in aviation | Mark Woods
In the 1940s, with the U.S. facing a huge pilot shortage, more than 1,000 women were trained to fly military planes domestically, relieving male pilots who were sent to combat. The elite group of ...
Survivor of D.C. Crash Relives Escape from Death Despite 60 Broken Bones After Plane Plunged into Potomac in 1982 (Exclusive)
Joseph Stiley, now 86, used his in-flight experience to avoid death in the 1982 plane crash on the Potomac River. Almost ...
The Lives Cut Short by the D.C. Plane Crash
The Schrocks regularly made the trip. Their roots and large farm were in Kiowa, Kan., but after their daughter, Ellie, moved ...
I Was Supposed to Be on the 1961 Flight That Crashed, Killing the U.S. Skating Team
There are incidents that divide life into a before and after. Witnessing American Airlines Flight 5342 explode into the Potomac Wednesday night brought back visions of Sabena Flight 548 carrying the U ...
'He had that star power' | Friends and family remember Ian Epstein, crew member killed in DC plane crash
The plane was carrying 60 passengers and four Charlotte, North Carolina-based crew members. Three soldiers were on board the ...
Flight attendant killed in midair collision near D.C. to be honored in service Wednesday
A flight attendant who was killed in the midair collision last week near the nation’s capital was set to be remembered for ...
Harry Stewart Jr. Dies at 100; One of Last Tuskegee Airmen to See Combat
His boyhood dream to be an adventurous pilot was fulfilled thanks to World War II. But, as a civilian, racial prejudice kept ...