Before Wednesday’s crash near Washington, D.C., there had not been a fatal collision involving a commercial aircraft in the ...

Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...

On May 12, 1979, an American Airlines DC-10 departing Chicago O’Hare International Airport crashed during its takeoff, according to Simple Flying. The crash ... Pan Am Flight 759 ...

Equipment failure led Flight 232 from Denver to Chicago to crash in Sioux City in 1989, killing more than 100 people.

Investigators have recovered most of the airplane and helicopter from the Potomac River, but continued searching for objects ...

Teen figure skaters from Boston, their moms and two Russian-born former world champions are among the dozens of passengers feared dead after an American ... the crash. She was flying into DC ...

The crash on Jan. 29 involved a military-operated helicopter on a routine training mission and an American Airlines plane ... On Thursday, a small airplane carrying 10 people in Alaska went ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean Duffy, the new transportation secretary, faces his first major crisis just hours after his swearing-in.