Air travel

An Air Force plane carrying Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Sen. Jim Risch, to Germany for the Munich Security Conference was forced to return to Washington late Thursday after developing a mechanical issue.

A United flight departing from Chicago was forced to return to O’Hare Airport for an unexpected issue in the cockpit Wednesday, the airline said.

Federal investigators are probing the collision that killed one person on a private jet owned by Vince Neil.

In the wake of three deadly plane crashes, travelers have grown anxious about future travel plans. But transportation expert Hani Mahmassani says air travel is still safe.

Hani Mahmassani, a transportation and engineering professor at Northwestern University, addresses concerns over flying following a series of aviation disasters across the country.

Videos circulating on TikTok capture pilots and crew members comforting passengers who have become more fearful of flying after two back-to-back crashes in January.

A crashed airplane with three dead people inside was found in Alaska during the search for a flight that went missing Thursday with 10 people aboard, the Coast Guard said Friday.

Residents and elected officials gathered Wednesday night to remember the people lost in the mid-air collision outside Reagan National Airport just over a week ago.

A Japan Airlines plane that was taxiing struck a parked Delta aircraft at Seattle-Tacoma Airport on Wednesday morning.

A Japan Airlines plane that was taxiing on the tarmac of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport apparently struck the tail of a parked Delta aircraft on Wednesday morning, airport authorities said.

The cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, also known as “black boxes,” are tools that help investigators reconstruct the events that lead up to a plane crash.

A variety of cameras around Philadelphia captured the moment a small plane crashed.

A man who works at a nearby gas station describes the scene as a plane crashed in Northeast Philadelphia.

A dashcam caught the moment a small plane crashed in Northeast Philadelphia on Friday.

A man describes the moment a small plane crashed in Northeast Philadelphia.

A small plane crashed in Northeast Philadelphia near a mall on Friday.

National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Inman said that the individual in charge of the air control tower at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport the night of the midair collision has been interviewed.

The so-called “black box” is one of the most important pieces of forensic evidence following a plane crash.

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Air Traffic Control shared raw audio from before and after the collision outside of Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night.