WASHINGTON – Central Wisconsin's Sean Duffy is facing his first big test as secretary of the Department of Transportation just one day after he was sworn into office. A commercial jet carrying 64 people collided in midair with an Army helicopter carrying three servicemembers Wednesday night near Washington,

A regional jet carrying 64 people collided in midair with a Black Hawk helicopter as the plane was approaching a runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night.

The cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the PSA Airlines-operated regional jet that crashed near Ronald Reagan National airport after colliding in midair with a US Army helicopter have been recovered by investigators.

Democrats are excoriating President Donald Trump for his “grotesque” claim that federal agency diversity requirements caused the deadly midair collision over the Potomac River Wednesday night. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer slammed the president’s remarks as insensitive to the victims’ families,

Sixty-secen people were killed in D.C. when American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army helicopter crashed over the Potomac River Wednesday night. Fourteen members of the U.S. figure skating community were aboard the plane.

The Army helicopter and regional American Eagle jet that collided over Washington are both workhorse aircraft that operate around the world on a daily basis.

Relatives of the victims are meeting with airline and National Transportation Safety Board officials and the Red Cross, police say

Spencer Lane, a figure skater, was on the doomed plane that crashed in the Potomac, reports say. He posted a photo to Instagram hours before.

Two weeks into his presidency, Trump faced a major crisis with the plane crash near DCA. He brought his unconventional style to the matter

Ari Shulman said he often watches planes line up to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport during his drive home to Alexandria along the George Washington Parkway.

The midair collision over the Potomac River on Wednesday brings back chilling memories of another tragedy in the same waters more than four decades ago—when Air Florida Flight 90, bound for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport,

In audio from the air traffic control tower around the time of the crash, a controller is heard asking the helicopter, “PAT25 do you have the CRJ in sight,” in reference to the passenger