Coverage of the recent mid-air collision brought up painful memories for John and Marilyn Kausner, whose daughter Elly was among those killed in the last major U.S. air disaster.

While landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday shortly before 9 p.m., American ...

The grim event recalls the last time a major airline crash occurred, when Flight 3407 departed from New Jersey nearly 16 ...

However, the Airline Safety and Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2010 significantly tightened standards in response to a deadly plane crash the previous year. In 2009, the Colgan ...

The last crash took place on Feb. 12, 2009, when Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed during landing near Buffalo ... according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The last fatality on a plane in ...

The United States' streak of more than 15 years without a major fatal airline crash came to a shocking end this week.

Rep. Nick Langworthy and his fellow co-chairs of the House Airline Safety Caucus “are closely monitoring” the investigation ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB ... For example, the 2009 Colgan Air crash highlighted pilot fatigue and training deficiencies. If evidence suggests morale played a role in the ...

A regional jet carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers. Here's what we know about the incident so far.

It was the first commercial air disaster since February 2009 when a Colgan Air DHC-8 propeller plane ... and there are lots of ways to measure safety including deaths per billion miles and fatal ...