The NTSB issued its preliminary report on the midair collision between a passenger plane and helicopter over Washington, D.C.

Nearby, a U.S. Army Black Hawk with three soldiers on board was practicing ... Credit: AP/Jose Luis Magana Investigators ...

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

The National Transportation Safety Board has released their preliminary report into the deadly midair collision between an ...

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 ...

Chairman Jennifer Homendy said the NTSB is recommending that the Federal Aviation Administration permanently ban helicopter ...

The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday recommended that helicopter traffic be banned from a four-mile stretch ...

The helicopter was on a “check” flight that night where the pilot was undergoing an annual test and a test on using night ...

The deadly crash took place in January when a military helicopter collided with a passenger jet, killing 67 people.

Two-thirds of those encounters occurred at night, the NTSB found ... from the tower telling the helicopter to “pass behind” the regional jet. But the Black Hawk’s cockpit voice recorder ...

Nearby the Army Black Hawk, with three soldiers on board ... Investigators believe the helicopter crew was wearing night-vision goggles that would have limited their peripheral vision.