The aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff due to an excessive rate of turn on the part of the crew during the climb. January 19, 1988 9 7 8 Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286: Bayfield: Colorado: Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner: The aircraft crashed during approach due to descent below the approach profile during a rapid descent. December 7 ...

This article lists the deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents involving commercial passenger and cargo flights, military passenger and cargo flights, or general aviation flights that have been involved in a ground or mid-air collision.

Jan 30 (Reuters) - An American Airlines (AAL.O), opens new tab regional passenger jet was involved in a mid-air collision on Wednesday night with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan ...

Jan 31, 2025 · The deadliest recent crash occurred on Feb. 12, 2009, when a Colgan Air plane crashed near Buffalo, N.Y., killing 50 people in total — 49 passengers and crew and another person on the ground.

Jan 30, 2025 · From the archives: 1982 Air Florida plane crash into icy Potomac River in Washington, D.C. 15:11 An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members aboard collided with an Army ...

Jan 31, 2025 · All 67 people on board the American Airlines regional jet and US Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair Wednesday night are presumed dead in the deadliest aviation disaster in the US...

Jan 30, 2025 · Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The deadliest recent crash was in 2009 near Buffalo, New York. All 45 passengers and the four crew members were killed when the Bombardier DHC-8 propeller plane crashed into a house. One person on the ground also was killed.

Jan 30, 2025 · The accident is the first fatal commercial plane crash in the U.S. since 2009, when a Bombardier DHC-8 propeller plane went down near Buffalo, New York, killing all 45 passengers and four crew ...

February 15 – Sabena Flight 548, a Boeing 707, crashed on approach in Brussels, Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team: a runaway stabilizer was thought to have been the cause of the first fatal accident involving a 707 in regular passenger service.

Jan 30, 2025 · Less than 30 seconds before the crash, an air traffic controller asks the helicopter if it has the arriving plane in sight: “PAT-25, do you have the CRJ in sight?” ... A traveler whose airplane was rerouted to a different airport shortly after the fatal aircraft collision near Washington D.C. is reflecting on the life-and-death situation he ...