As investigators from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and Canada’s Transportation Safety Board do their ...

They point to the most recent major U.S. air disaster, in 2009, when a plane operated by the regional airline Colgan Air crashed shortly after takeoff outside Buffalo, New York, killing 49 people ...

Flying is still considered one of the safest modes of transportation, but any crash involving aircraft feels like one too ...

Fatal airplane crashes have been in the news a lot lately, starting with a commercial airplane colliding midair with an army ...

“I have to say when you look at our aviation record, our safety record over the past 15 years -- in 2009 obviously we had the Colgan Air crash that killed 47 people – but we haven’t had a ...

Prior to the Washington, D.C., midair collision, the last commercial plane crash in the United States with no survivors was Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009.Colgan Air Flight 3407 was scheduled to ...

The near misses came after several aviation accidents, including the disastrous crash between an Army helicopter and a jet last month that killed 67.