A multi-agency search and rescue operation is underway in the Potomac River after a small American Airlines aircraft collided ...
Wednesday’s fatal collision and two other incidents dramatically illustrate the challenges pilots and air traffic controllers face in the complex, security-sensitive skies above the nation’s capital.
About 8:45pm Wednesday, local time, the PSA Airlines flight is approaching the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge, 6 kilometres south of the airport. Air traffic controllers tell the flight to prepare to ...