the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum says. Reagan was sworn in on Sunday, Jan. 20, 1985, but the public inaugural ceremony was scheduled for the next day. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), the high temperature that day was only ...

American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, was attempting to land when the plane and a Black Hawk helicopter collided.

A large search-and-rescue operation is underway in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan National Airport after a passenger jet and military helicopter collided midair Wednesday night.Officials, during a news conference early Thursday morning,

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — At least 28 bodies were pulled from the icy waters of the Potomac River after an American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, officials said Thursday.

A regional jet that had departed from Wichita, Kansas, crashed into a Black Hawk while on approach to Ronald Reagan National Airport.

There were multiple fatalities, according to a person familiar with the matter, but the precise number of victims was unclear as rescue crews hunted for any survivors.

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Federal aviation investigators vowed earlier in the day that they will find the cause of a horrific collision. NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said at a briefing that the agency wants to assure the American public it will "leave no stone unturned in this investigation .

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Army’s 12th Aviation Battalion that includes the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the deadly crash near Ronald Reagan National Airport has been granted a 48-hour operational pause.

At a meeting that began with a moment of silence for the victims of a crash between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport late Wednesday,

First off, a midair collision between a civilian commercial regional jet and a military helicopter from a nearby Army base shows the extremely saturated airspace with aircraft traffic near Reagan National Airport right next to the Potomac River.

A midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft, officials said Thursday, as they scrutinized the actions of the military pilot and reported that control tower staffing was “not normal” at the time of the country's worst aviation disaster in a generation.