Only five people survived, and 78 were killed when an Air Florida Flight 90 stalled and crashed just moments after taking off from the Reagan National Airport, then known as Washington National ...

In 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River. 78 passengers, cabin crew members and motorists died. Just five people survived, and only three are still ...

The black boxes of the American Airlines plane submerged in the Potomac River from Wednesday’s crash with a military helicopter have been recovered, the National Transportation Safety Board said ...

As crews removed some of the wreckage of the American Airlines plane that collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River last week, more ...

The midair crash occurred before 9 p.m. local time when a Bombardier CRJ700 jet that had departed from Wichita, Kansas, collided with a Black Hawk helicopter.

Joseph Stiley, now 86, used his in-flight experience to avoid death in the 1982 plane crash on the Potomac River. Almost exactly 43 years later, he heard news of the American Airlines crash on the ...

WASHINGTON – A dramatic plane crash in frigid temperatures. And a search and rescue that saved lives on the same partially frozen Potomac River. Almost 43 years ago to the day, tragedy struck ...