Vice President JD Vance, left, shakes hands with Sean Duffy after swearing him in as secretary of transportation as his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, holds the Bible in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

President Trump says the army Black Hawk involved in Wednesday's collision was above the 200ft altitude limit for helicopters.

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, and D.C. Fire Chief John Donnelly provided updates on the midair collision between an American Airlines commercial passenger jet and an Army helicopter at D.C.'s Reagan National Airport.

Duffy, who was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday, quickly emerged as a public face of the federal government’s response to the deadly plane crash at

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate confirmed Sean Duffy on Tuesday as secretary of Transportation, clearing the way for another of President Donald Trump's Cabinet officials to start working on plans ...

Investigators will hope to learn more about the crash which killed 67 people on the American Airlines jet and Army helicopter.

Authorities are combing the Potomac River for a second day in search of victims and more clues behind the deadliest U.S. air crash in over 20 years.

No one is expected to have survived a collision between an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, officials said.WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR» American Eagle Flight 5342 (Wichita,

Sixty passengers, four crew, and three US Army personnel are believed to be dead after the collision 400ft over the Potomac River in Washington DC.

Emergency teams will continue efforts to retrieve the bodies of those who died when a passenger jet and helicopter collided.

A week after President Donald Trump issued mass pardons for people charged in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol Building four years ago, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser expressed her concern ...

Russian ice-skating coaches and former world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the plane that crashed into the Potomac River after a mid-air collision near Reagan Washington National Airport.