Video footage of the incident shows the aircraft flying at a low altitude, before an explosion happened at the moment of ...

The National Transportation Safety Board is an independent federal agency tasked with examining serious transport-related ...

A commercial plane with 60 passengers and four crew members on board collided with a military helicopter with a crew of three ...

Fatal crashes like the one that happened near Washington on Wednesday are increasingly rare because of modern aviation safety ...

A commercial plane with 60 passengers and four crew members on board collided with a military helicopter with a crew of three near Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night.

Since its creation in 1967, the agency reports it has investigated more than 153,000 aviation accidents and incidents.

Emergency teams will continue efforts to retrieve the bodies of those who died when a passenger jet and helicopter collided.