The agency says the approved helicopter route is too close to the approach to the runway where an American Eagle plane was ...

The Black Hawk is a family of utility helicopters made by Sikorsky, a company owned by Lockheed Martin. One of the mainstays ...

Officials confirmed the crew of the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines passenger plane near Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport may not have known ...

A preliminary analysis of the flight data and voice recorder on board a Black Hawk helicopter leading up to the collision with a commercial flight over Washington, DC, on January 29, indicated the ...

Before the collision, ATC instructed the helicopter to maintain visual separation and to pass behind the inbound jet—important instructions that the crew seems not to have heard.

Black Hawk pilots may not have heard a critical directive from air traffic control to fly behind the American Airlines plane in the seconds before it collided with the jet, and may have had “bad ...

The Black Hawk pilots who collided with an American Airlines plane last month may not have heard vital information given by air traffic control to fly behind the passenger jet seconds before the ...

passenger plane and a military Black Hawk helicopter on Jan. 29. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski) The NTSB’s on-scene portion of the investigation, which has now concluded, yielded a few possible ...

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy speaks during a news conference Friday in Washington about the fatal Black Hawk-jet collision on Jan. 29. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP ...

A Black Hawk helicopter crew may not have heard key instructions from air traffic control before it struck an American Airlines jet near Washington DC a fortnight ago, according to black box data.

The radio altimeter on board the Black Hawk at the time of the deadly midair collision read 278 feet, Homendy said. That altimeter uses a radio beam to show the helicopter’s altitude above ...