Robert Sumwalt, former chair of the NTSB and CBS News’ transportation safety expert and analyst, said the newly-public FAA data indicates such close operations between helicopters and airplanes may ...

The family of Sam Lilley, the co-pilot of a January flight that collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., has become respected advocates for air safety.

The U.S. Transportation Department’s inspector general has launched an audit of the FAA’s oversight of Ronald Reagan ...

The announcement comes a week after the National Transportation Safety Board grilled aviation officials about safety gaps in ...

Nearly eight months after a deadly collision occurred near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., the ...

The DOT's Inspector General will conduct a safety audit of the FAA's oversight of DCA airspace, following a mid-air collision ...

The US Department of Transportation has initiated an audit of the Federal Aviation Administration's oversight of Washington ...

Washington Ronald Reagan National Airport is the older of the two major airports in the area, commencing operations in 1941 as Washington National Airport. Dulles opened later and was designated as ...

A hearing looking at the collision of a passenger jet and a military helicopter unearthed a number of concerns about the ...

A marathon of recent public hearings highlighted a rift over the investigation into the fatal midair crash in January between ...

I feel like our ratio of safety to efficiency has gone slightly too far towards efficiency,” a front line manager at the ...

- Salvage crews work on recovering wreckage near the site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision between an American ...