Large volumes pose challenges to air traffic control, which has faced severe staffing shortages for years, according to ...

Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The last was in 2009 near Buffalo, New York.

An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided Wednesday. Here are some of the deadliest ...

Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashed into a house in Clarence Center, killing everyone on board the plane.

The midair collision of an American Eagle-branded regional jet and a Sikorsky UH-60 helicopter near Washington, DC may be the first fatal crash involving a US airline since the 2009 crash of a Colgan ...

It's been more than two decades since American Airlines, the nation's largest carrier, was involved in a deadly crash.

The grim event recalls the last time a major airline crash occurred, when Flight 3407 departed from New Jersey nearly 16 years ago.

A midair crash between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington D.C. is likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in ...

Before Wednesday’s mid-air collision in Washington, the last fatal US passenger plane accident occurred in February 2009.

In 2018, a passenger on a Southwest Airlines jet was killed after shrapnel from the plane's engine crashed through a window and caused such a drop in air pressure that a passenger suffered fatal ...

The last major collision of a commercial U.S. airline dates back to 2009, when a Colgan Air incident left 50 dead near ...

The Federal Aviation Administration’s website boasts that the U.S. has the world's toughest qualifications for airline pilots.