Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The last was in 2009 near Buffalo, New York.

Fatal crashes like the one that happened near Washington on Wednesday are increasingly rare because of modern aviation safety ...

Air crash investigations can take months, and federal investigators told reporters they would not speculate on the cause.

Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashed into a house in Clarence Center, killing everyone on board the plane.

An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while ...

An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair with an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, at Reagan National ...

Authorities have switched to a recovery mission in the Potomac River following a midair collision between an American Eagle ...

Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The deadliest recent crash was in 2009 near Buffalo, ...

A jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald ...

Police boats combed the banks of the Potomac River on Friday, moving slowly under rainy skies and scanning the shoreline as ...

A few minutes before landing, air traffic controllers asked the arriving commercial jet if it could land on the shorter ...

The grim event recalls the last time a major airline crash occurred, when Flight 3407 departed from New Jersey nearly 16 years ago.