Reckoning with Mortality: The Hidden Toll of Being a Military Family in the Aviation Community "The aviation community is very small. The rotary aviation world is even smaller. Since I met my husband in 2010, we have not...
Hotline Between Military and Air Traffic Controllers in Washington Hasn't Worked for over 3 Years The Federal Aviation Administration official in charge of air traffic controllers, Frank McIntosh, confirmed the agency didn...
Helicopter Route Permanently Closed After Deadly Black Hawk Collision with Plane Helicopters will be permanently restricted from flying near Washington, D.C.'s airport on the same route where a passenger...
Route Used by Army Black Hawk During Deadly Collision Was Far Too Risky, Safety Officials Say Federal crash investigators have said a helicopter route used by an Army Black Hawk for training when it crashed midair with...
Americans' Confidence in Air Travel Safety Dips Slightly After Washington Plane Crash: AP-NORC Poll Americans' confidence in air travel and the federal agencies tasked with maintaining air safety has slipped a little from...
Investigators Say Black Hawk Altitude Gauges May Have Been Inaccurate Prior to Deadly DC Airplane Collision NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said the Black Hawk helicopter was at approximately 278 feet altitude at the time of the crash...
Black Hawk in Deadly Collision May Have Turned Off Location Monitor, But Trump Blames Air Traffic Control System President Donald Trump blamed the deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter last week on what he called an...
New Netflix Documentary 'Surviving Black Hawk Down' Interviews Both Sides of the Battle of Mogadishu 32 Years Later Though both U.S. Army leaders and journalists have meticulously documented how the Battle of Mogadishu unfolded decades ago...
3 Army Soldiers Killed in Tragic Collision with Passenger Plane Near DC Airport Three unidentified Army soldiers died after their Black Hawk helicopter collided with a passenger flight over Washington, D.C...
Passenger Jet with 64 Aboard Collides with Army Helicopter While Landing at Reagan Airport Near DC A jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard has collided with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...