MADISON COUNTY, Mississippi — A medical helicopter that crashed in a wooded area in Mississippi reported “a flight control problem” shortly before a Monday crash that killed all three people ...

Federal aviation officials will continue making sure that planes and helicopters no longer share the same airspace over the nation’s capital in the wake of January’s midair collision ...

Federal aviation officials will continue making sure that planes and helicopters no longer share the same airspace over the nation’s capital in the wake of January’s midair collision, which killed 67 ...

Some helicopter flights at Washington's Reagan National Airport should be banned amid an "intolerable risk" of collisions with planes, crash investigators have said. It comes after 67 people were ...

Among the recommendations, was for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to prohibit operations on helicopter Route 4 between Hains Point and the Wilson Bridge when runways 15 and 33 at DCA ...

Information gathered from voluntary safety reporting programs and the FAA regarding encounters between helicopters and commercial aircraft near DCA show that from 2011 through 2024 ...

The recommendation is to prohibit helicopters from using what is called Route 4 when planes are landing or taking off at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport using runways 33 and 15.

(The National Transportation Safety Board) The NTSB added that helicopters transiting the Route 4 helicopter corridor at the maximum authorized altitude of 200 feet could have only about 75 feet of ...

Helicopters on "the Route 4 helicopter corridor at the maximum authorized altitude of 200 feet could have only about 75 feet of vertical separation from an airplane on landing approach to Runway ...