A US passenger plane carrying 64 people crashed into Washington DC's chilly Potomac River after colliding midair with a ...

The National Transportation Safety Board provided an update on Thursday on the deadly airplane-helicopter crash over ...

Salvage crews have recovered an engine and large pieces of fuselage and are working to retrieve a wing from wreckage of last week’s midair collision near Washington’s Reagan National Airport.

Fierce jet stream winds supercharging its speed. The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway. If flights are heading eastbound ...

The planes didn’t break the sound barrier because it was the air moving them so quickly, not their engines. The report ...

Planes crossing the Atlantic Ocean can reach speeds of 840 mph as they’re carried by the jet stream. NurPhoto via Getty Images The plane was in the air less than 30 minutes before reaching ...

Search and rescue crews were on the Potomac River Thursday after a passenger plane and military helicopter collided in ...

An unusually strong jet stream pushed the British Airways flight to 814 miles per hour nearly breaking the subsonic speed ...

The fastest recorded ground speed reached by a transatlantic flight was 835mph, which was hit by a commercial aircraft going from New York to Lisbon last February. Although such a speed is officially ...

The colder it gets, the faster they fly. Commercial flights bound for Europe have been taking off late from the States but arriving on time or early, thanks to a more powerful jet stream ...

The jet stream, a fast-flowing, narrow air current, can dramatically affect flight times when they align with aircraft routes. Wow! According to data from flightradar, BA274 flying Las Vegas to ...