Since its creation in 1967, the agency reports it has investigated more than 153,000 aviation accidents and incidents.

Latest news and live updates after an American Airline jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River.

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American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, was attempting to land when the plane and a Black Hawk helicopter ...

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

The National Transportation Safety Board said the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the American Airlines jet that collided with the Black Hawk helicopter have been recovered from ...

Authorities have not pinpointed a reason for the collision, which happened as the regional jet was trying to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ...

The helicopter was part of the 12th Aviation Battalion which is on an operational pause following the collision. It will ...

A deadly midair collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter near the nation's capital is bringing ...

An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday ...

The NTSB is known for being highly professional — slow, but painstakingly thorough, and their conclusions with be based on ...