Sen. Ted Cruz positioned to play a key role in plane crash investigation
Cruz has a key role in congressional oversight of the Wednesday night accident as chairman of the Senate Committee on ...
A shorter commute: Lawmakers, lobbyists argued over adding flights at busy Reagan airport
Lawmakers have an interest in boosting direct flights to their states because Reagan is closer to downtown than Dulles.
18 dead, no survivors found yet from Potomac River after US plane crash near Reagan National Airport
On Wednesday evening, a tragic midair collision occurred between a passenger jet and a US Army helicopter as the aircrafts ...
Passenger jet collides with helicopter while landing at Reagan Washington National Airport, 18 bodies recovered from river
Emergency alert is displayed on screens at Ronald Reagan National Airport, after American Eagle flight 5342 collided with a ...
Pilots have long worried about DC’s complex airspace contributing to a catastrophe
The airspace around Washington, D.C., is congested and complex — a combination aviation experts have long worried could lead ...
Day Before Collision, Another Plane Aborted First Landing at Reagan to Avoid Helicopter
On Tuesday, a day before Wednesday’s fatal collision, a Republic Airways jet from Windsor Locks, Conn., was minutes away from ...
Listen to the Air Traffic Control Audio in the Moments Around the Collision
The audio indicates that air traffic controllers tried to warn the Army helicopter about a nearby Canadair Regional Jet.
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Did Donald Trump’s firing of aviation officials make the DC crash likelier? Doubtful, experts say
BREAKING NEWS: A passenger jet collided midair with a black hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River in a mass casualty event in Washington DC. Just last week, Trump FIRED the heads of the ...