An aviation expert is calling for taking "a bulldozer to the front of the FAA" after the fatal and tragic collision between an American Airlines flight and Army helicopter over D.C.

An American Airlines plane carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter outside Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. Wednesday evening. Three soldiers were onboard the helicopter and a massive search and rescue operation is now unfolding in the Potomac River.

Latest news and live updates after an American Airline jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River.

Aviation experts have warned for years about near collisions at airports around the US, citing air traffic control shortages and airspace congestion.

The collision, near the Washington, D.C., airport, involved a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter colliding with an American Airlines commercial flight, resulting in the presumed death of 67 people. The preliminary FAA report states that staffing at the Ronald ...

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a statement saying that A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet collided in midair with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while approaching Washington National Airport at about 9 p.

Donald Trump gave a briefing on the Jan. 29 helicopter-airplane crash on Jan. 29, in which a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter collided midair with American Airlines Flight 5342 as it approached Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

An Army Black Hawk helicopter collided midair with an American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday.

President Trump appointed Christopher Rocheleau, a 22-year FAA veteran, as acting administrator of the agency.

Newly appointed Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said Thursday that the midair collision Wednesday night between a regional American Airlines passenger jet and a Black Hawk military helicopter over the Potomac River near Washington,