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As they flew south along the Potomac River on the gusty night of Jan. 29, the crew aboard an Army Black Hawk helicopter attempted to execute a common aviation practice. It would play a role in ending their lives. Shortly after the Black Hawk passed over Washington’s most famous array of cherry trees, an air…
Beginning next year, if you catch an American Airlines flight, you won’t have to pay to watch shows or movies, keep up with the latest news or endlessly scroll your social media feeds to pass the time. American Airlines will provide free high-speed Wi-Fi for its regular costumers on most flights, the company announced on…
Stocks inched higher in early trading on Tuesday, as the Trump administration’s chaotic tariff rollout continues to spur volatility in the markets. The S&P 500 opened up 0.5 percent, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq also gained slightly. President Trump’s whipsawing tariff policies are still driving sentiment on Wall Street, especially in sectors facing the threat of…
Chaos erupted aboard a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver to Houston this week when a man started bashing a window and several seats around him, prompting other passengers to subdue him with shoelaces and zip ties until the plane landed. The struggle, captured on videos and photos taken by passengers, began about 40 minutes into…
Just after 8:43 p.m. on Jan. 29, an air traffic controller at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, posed a question to the pilots of American Airlines Flight 5342: Could they land at a different runway? There was nothing unusual about the request or the pilots’ assent to it. But the decision to switch runways…
Flying helicopters near Ronald Reagan National Airport always carries some risk. But the conditions on the moonless night of Jan. 29, when an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet collided, were unusually challenging. Many of the factors that contributed to the disaster are still being uncovered as investigators from the National…
A United Airlines flight from Houston to New York was evacuated on Sunday morning because of flames coming from an engine, video shows. Flight 1382 was about to depart George Bush Intercontinental Airport for LaGuardia Airport just after 8:30 a.m. when the crew “received an indication about one engine and halted the takeoff while still…
A worker at Chicago O’Hare International Airport was critically injured on Saturday after a vehicle that tows aircraft and a plane collided, causing the vehicle to flip over, officials said. The collision took place about 7:35 p.m. local time, when an Air Wisconsin jet that was approaching a gate struck the vehicle, which is also…
Before the deadly plane crash on Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan National Airport, there were at least 10 close calls at the Washington airport in the last three years that were documented in government records reviewed by The New York Times. One of the most alarming came last April, when a Southwest Airlines flight was…
The Federal Aviation Administration has closed off most helicopter access to Ronald Reagan National Airport’s airspace after a deadly collision on Wednesday night involving an Army helicopter, officials said. The closures, which were announced to the airspace’s approved users about 12 hours after the crash, effectively close off helicopter access to the north and south…