Between the volume of air traffic and the variety of aircraft, the airspace in the Washington area remains among the most complicated and restricted in the country.

When Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 Federal Aviation Administraton staff in the 1980s he set the organisation on a troubled path.

Salvage crews have removed a large portion of a commercial jet from the Potomac River near Washington’s Reagan National ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Crews began removing wreckage from the Potomac River from last week’s deadly plane collision between an airliner and an Army helicopter. The midair crash was the deadliest U.S.

The Potomac air crash has left many reeling in Richmond Hill, hometown of an airline pilot who died, and in Lilburn, hometown of a soldier who also died.

Crews are on the scene on the Potomac River to retrieve the submerged wreckage of an airliner and an Army helicopter.

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Salvage crews have removed a large portion of a commercial jet from the Potomac River near Washington’s Reagan National Airport on Monday, five days after a midair collision last ...