The airspace around Washington, D.C., is congested and complex — a combination aviation experts have long worried could lead to catastrophe.
An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with a regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday evening, U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News.
Democratic California Rep. Norma Torres is doubling down on holding President Donald Trump responsible for contributing to the fatal aircraft
MORRISVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — Rachel Quigley described her drive to Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. Thursday as surreal. “As I drove to the airport today, I passed the pop-up tents and saw the Coast Guard,” she said. “It weighed heavily on my heart.”
An airspace cluttered with passenger planes and military aircraft. A history of near-crashes. And a growing shortage of air traffic controllers available to manage it all. Some experts, politicians and airport managers have been warning for years of the risks posed by the crowded airspace and volume of flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).
A retired pilot gives a first-hand view of what it’s like to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.Chuck Smith says he has made that approach and landing hundreds of times in his career. He shared a video with 12 On Your Side showing what it looks like to fly near Washington,
An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River.
One onlooker said that he initially “didn’t think much of it” and thought the collision resembled “shooting stars.”
There were no survivors after a collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near Washington, D
Gov. Glenn Youngkin says the plane from Wichita, Kansas appeared to be on a "normal approach" before the collision with a military helicopter near Washington Reagan National Airport that killed
The plane collided with a helicopter just before it was scheduled to land. This is a developing story and will be updated.