An American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members crashed into a U.S. Army helicopter while descending toward Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. The collision, ...

The deadliest air disaster in history occurred in 1977 at a small airport named Los Rodeos on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. If the crash had a single, clear cause, it might be easy ...

As Los Rodeos Airport fills up on this day with an uncommon number of large aircraft, Air Traffic Control orders the planes to line up at the end of the landing runway (see number 2 on the diagram).

Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...