The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found no evidence of foul play and blamed the crash on errors by the pilot, who failed to retract the plane’s spoilers, or air brakes, at the critical ...

The red line shows the final approach of American Airlines 5342 to runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

In the minutes before an American Airlines flight crashed into ... published path known as "Route 4." Several of these channels cut through the DC area, allowing military aircraft to coexist ...

PSA Airlines ... roughly 4 miles from the White House, and just south of Arlington National Cemetery. Washington's other major airport, Dulles International, is roughly 27 miles northwest of ...

DALLAS — Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board will likely be studying three main elements as they try ...

In 1949, a war surplus P-38 Lightning, on a test flight before being delivered to the Bolivian Air Force, crashed into an Eastern Airlines DC-4 carrying ... Review's Northwest Passages community ...

One veteran commercial airline pilot told me that the military ... when they approach Reagan from the northwest. Flight 5342 was approaching from the south, paralleling the Potomac River when ...