Latest news and live updates after an American Airline jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River.

One widely shared claim was that Trump fired 3,000 air traffic controllers shortly after taking office for his second term.

The president implied that the crash was caused by the FAA's recruitment of people with "severe intellectual disabilities" and "psychiatric problems." ...

Last year, senators from Virginia and Maryland sounded the alarm over congestion in the skies above Washington.

President Donald Trump began his White House briefing with a moment of silence and a prayer for the victims of Wednesday’s ...

Both the flight and the helicopter plummeted into the Potomac River ... (Getty Images via AFP) While 28 bodies were pulled ...

There were no survivors after a collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter at Ronald Reagan ...

One of the flight data recorders – known as black boxes – from the doomed CRJ 700 that collided with a military helicopter on ...

On board the plane was 60 passengers and four crew members. The helicopter, a Black Hawk helicopter, carried three passengers, according to USA TODAY's previous reporting. The crash ...

There were 64 people on American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas to DCA — including 60 passengers and four crew ...

A United States figure skater is clearing up rumors that he barely missed being a passenger on the American Airlines flight Wednesday that crashed and killed everyone on board.

Control tower staffing was “not normal” at the time of the country's worst aviation disaster in a generation. One air traffic ...