Current airport flight safety practices create an "intolerable safety risk" that could be eliminated by changing allowed ...

The National Transportation and Safety Board is recommending helicopters no longer fly along the route when planes are ...

The Coast Guard response to the Washington D.C. plane crash in January included 278 personnel, 11 small boat stations and ...

The agency says the approved helicopter route is too close to the approach to the runway where an American Eagle plane was ...

‍ DALLAS — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has urged the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to prohibit ...

Helicopters should not be allowed to travel over a four-mile stretch over the Potomac River following the deadly air ...

U.S. Representative Don Beyer, who represents a Northern Virginia district in the U.S. House that includes National Airport ...

The crash occurred when an American Airlines-owned PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet carrying 64 passengers and crew and a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter carrying three ...

The NTSB pointed out that the current flight paths of helicopters near Washington-National provide only 75 feet of separation ...

A Sikorsky UH-60L "Black Hawk" helicopter belonging to the 1st Battalion of the 228th Aviation Regiment of the United States ...