Before Wednesday’s crash near Washington, D.C., there had not been a fatal collision involving a commercial aircraft in the ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found no evidence of foul play and blamed the crash on errors by the pilot, who failed to retract the plane’s spoilers, or air brakes, at the critical ...

Horrifying footage captured the moment American Airlines Flight ... caught on video around 9 p.m. from an EarthCam perched atop the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, pointing south toward the ...

A Washington-based attorney was on the doomed American Airlines plane because she had ... The couple had plans to dine at Maydan, a Northwest DC hotspot, before hosting friends at a joint birthday ...

On May 12, 1979, an American Airlines DC-10 departing Chicago O’Hare International ... All but one passenger died when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed on Aug. 16, 1987, after ...

An American Airlines plane and Army helicopter collided around 9 p.m. local time Wednesday near ... the news of the tragedy that has occurred in DC," she wrote on Facebook. "My husband was one ...

American Airlines Flight 5342 was on approach at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., the plane showing up on the video as a fuzzy ball of white light in the black 9 p.m. skies of ...