Patrick Hempen, the now-retired Federal Aviation Administration director of aviation accident investigations, gave some ...

The plane had been cleared to land on Reagan National Airport’s main runway. But in the final moments of the flight, air ...

The crash happened Wednesday night over the Potomac River, killing all 64 passengers on the commercial flight and three crew members on the military helicopter.

I don’t know of any other accident that has had this amount of impact on aviation but also in other industries,” one expert said of the 1982 crash.