A preliminary analysis of the flight data and voice recorder on board a Black Hawk helicopter leading up to the collision with a commercial flight over Washington, DC, on January 29, indicated the ...

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

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 National Transportation Safety Board gave an update on its investigation into the deadly midair collision between an ...

The Black Hawk is a family of utility helicopters made by Sikorsky, a company owned by Lockheed Martin. One of the mainstays ...

Officials confirmed the crew of the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines passenger plane near Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport may not have known ...

Before the collision, ATC instructed the helicopter to maintain visual separation and to pass behind the inbound jet—important instructions that the crew seems not to have heard.

On the night of Jan. 29, an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet over the Potomac River in Washington, killing all 67 people on both aircraft. To analyze ...

B.C. RCMP say they have begun using a Black Hawk helicopter to patrol the United States border as part of efforts to stop smuggling and illegal crossings. Police say people shouldn't be alarmed ...

A Black Hawk helicopter crew may not have heard key instructions from air traffic control before it struck an American Airlines jet near Washington DC a fortnight ago, according to black box data.

A preliminary analysis of the flight data and voice recorder on board a Black Hawk helicopter leading up to the collision with a commercial flight over Washington, DC, on January 29, indicated the ...

The radio altimeter on board the Black Hawk at the time of the deadly midair collision read 278 feet, Homendy said. That altimeter uses a radio beam to show the helicopter’s altitude above ...