The NTSB issued its preliminary report on the midair collision between a passenger plane and helicopter over Washington, D.C.

Nearby, a U.S. Army Black Hawk with three soldiers on board was practicing ... Credit: AP/Jose Luis Magana Investigators believe the helicopter crew was wearing night-vision goggles that would have ...

Federal crash investigators have said a helicopter route used by an Army Black Hawk for training when it crashed midair with a passenger aircraft over Washington, D.C., in late January, killing all ...

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

The National Transportation Safety Board said the separation between helicopters and jets in the area was insufficient and ...

The Black Hawk is a family of utility helicopters made by Sikorsky, a company owned by Lockheed Martin. One of the mainstays of the U.S. Army, it is extensively used by the U.S. military as a ...

Amid the ongoing investigation into the midair collision in Washington, D.C., in January that killed 67 people, including six ...

About the crash: All 67 people on the aircraft — 64 on the American Airlines plane and three in the Blackhawk helicopter — died in the January 29 collision. It was the deadliest aviation ...

Support for a Black Hawk helicopter is being requested for Roaring Fork Valley’s wildfire mitigation efforts. Aspen resident Larry Mehren addressed the Aspen City Council during public comment at ...

Two-thirds of those encounters occurred at night, the NTSB found ... from the tower telling the helicopter to “pass behind” the regional jet. But the Black Hawk’s cockpit voice recorder ...