Light pollution from Washington and the passenger jet’s dim lights might have contributed to difficulties spotting American Airlines Flight 5342 before the collision on Jan. 29, Army experts said.
Documents released in the inquiry into the deadly midair collision over the Potomac River on Jan. 29 reveal new details about three people whose decisions shaped the outcome of the disaster.
Air traffic control managers told the National Transportation Safety Board that F.A.A. leaders rebuffed efforts over the years to address hazardous conditions that played a role in the Jan. 29 crash.
Federal Aviation Administration employees preparing to testify on Thursday, the second day of National Transportation Safety Board hearings on the January collision of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines plane.
Flight instruments probably led the Black Hawk crew to believe the helicopter was lower than it actually was before the collision with a commercial airplane on Jan. 29.
Law enforcement and rescue teams searched the Potomac River next to the wreckage of an American Airlines plane that crashed into a helicopter near Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Va., in January.
The pilot was removed from the cockpit of a plane after it landed in San Francisco on Saturday night. A woman was also charged in a related felony complaint.
A company that provides air traffic control services said it had resolved a “technical issue.” The delays came months after a power outage forced Heathrow Airport to shut down for 16 hours.
Six months after a midair collision killed 67 people outside Washington, transportation safety officials will hear testimony from the key players whose pilots were involved in the accident.
The fuselage of the American Airlines plane involved in a collision with a Black Hawk helicopter was recovered from the Potomac River days after the crash.
The National Transportation Safety Board is also expected to release a trove of documents related to the fatal midair collision in January between an Army helicopter and a regional jet at Reagan National Airport.
The National Transportation Safety Board is also expected to release a trove of documents related to the fatal midair collision in January between an Army helicopter and a regional jet at Reagan National Airport.
The sudden maneuver was made during a Friday flight out of California after two collision safety alerts sounded in the cockpit, causing the pilots to take evasive action, the airline said.
Countries striking agreements with the United States have pledged to buy more Boeing planes, but it’s not clear whether those orders were the result of President Trump’s tactics.
The former flight attendant, Estes Carter Thompson III, of Charlotte, N.C., secretly filmed girls using the restroom on American Airlines flights in 2023, prosecutors said.
Estes Carter Thompson III secretly filmed young girls by directing them to specific lavatories on American Airlines flights where he had set up “a secret recording studio” using his cellphone, prosecutors said.
The mistakes were found after DNA testing by a coroner in London. The Indian government said bodies of the Flight 171 victims “were handled with utmost professionalism.”
A Virgin Australia plane. One of the airline’s flights was plunged into chaos after a fire started in an overhead bin. The company said it believes a battery caught fire.
The pilot told passengers that he made an “aggressive maneuver” to avoid a military aircraft over North Dakota. The Air Force said a B-52 was conducting a flyover at a state fair at the time.
The pilot told passengers that he made an “aggressive maneuver” to avoid a military aircraft over North Dakota. The Air Force said a B-52 was conducting a flyover at a state fair at the time.
The jet, bound for Detroit from Omaha, made an emergency landing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after a man shoved a flight attendant and displayed unruly behavior, SkyWest Airlines said.
A focus on the Boeing 787’s fuel switches in a preliminary assessment raised questions about the pilots’ actions, but much is still unknown about Flight 171.
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