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

Air traffic control (ATC) operators were directing the doomed Black Hawk Sikorsky H-60 helicopter - marked as a PAT 25 - to ...

Who was on American Airlines flight 5342 that crashed in Washington? - full list - Professional figure skaters, school pupils ...

A midair collision between an American Airlines jetliner and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport on ...

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

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 ...

Among those killed were two with Florida connections: the pilot of the plane, Jonathan Campos, and the son of a Venice couple.

Black boxes have been recovered from the crashed American Airlines plane, with tests being carried out in a laboratory. Meanwhile, air traffic control audio has revealed another flight at the same ...

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

Recovery operations are underway after an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter collided and crashed into the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night.

"Our whole air traffic control system has been blinking red, screaming at us that we've got it overloaded," one expert told BI.

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