Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...

American Airlines Flight 587 was on its way out of New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Nov. 12, 2001, when it "crashed into ... crew members aboard the Boeing 737" were killed ...

Then, two days before the anniversary, an American ... Alaska Airlines event comes amid a flurry of harrowing aviation incidents, including fatal crashes overseas. Six years ago, two Boeing ...

Viral Report Claimed Figure Skater Scheduled to Fly on Doomed American Airlines ... the crash that killed 179 people. US air safety officials and staff from the beleaguered aircraft maker Boeing ...

It’s been one week since American Eagle Flight 5342 crashed into the Potomac River, and the work has only begun to recover ...

Wreckage from the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army helicopter have now been lifted from the Potomac ...

Investigators have recovered data from inside the plane that shows what the last moments looked like for pilots before the deadly collision.

You might think there's no bigger threat to an airline's bottom line than a fatal plane crash. But the day after American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with a U.S. Army helicopter in Washington ...

A regional jet carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Reagan National Airport grounded all flights.

"We grieve and console with the families and friends who lost those of our fellow citizens who died in this plane crash." Hamaad Raza, whose wife was also on the American Airlines flight ...

Crews begin the complex job of removing the last of the wreckage from the crash site in order to recover all 67 victims of ...

Transportation safety investigators are seeking to determine if the pilots of the American Airlines plane detected danger just before the midair crash with a helicopter. By Mark Walker Mark Walker ...