Due to their hover and vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities, helicopters possess distinct advantages over fixed-wing aircraft. Able to operate in tight spaces, isolated areas, and places, ...

WASHINGTON - Military helicopter flights forced at least two planes to abort landings at Reagan National Airport in the week before a deadly collision presumably killed 67 people on Wednesday, ...

To fly or be flown in a helicopter is a very different experience to traveling by airplane, even if a rare helicopter-plane hybrid does exist. As pilot Nancy Bradshaw explained to Helipaddy in August ...

(CNN) — In the three years before the deadly collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight near Reagan National Airport, at least two other pilots reported near-misses with ...

Jay’Liana Bailey put on the virtual reality headset and held a set of controls in each hand as she began flying a virtual ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A report released over the weekend by the New York Times dug further into the key factors that may have led to the deadly midair collision between American Airlines flight 5342 ...

On *** typical morning you'd see planes right over my shoulder here making their way into Reagan National Airport. That's the same flight path that that plane and helicopter crashed last night on. Now ...

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said the helicopter was “conducting a training flight” at the time of the crash ...