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Americans' confidence in air travel safety dips slightly after Washington plane crash: AP-NORC poll
Read full article: Americans' confidence in air travel safety dips slightly after Washington plane crash: AP-NORC pollA new poll finds Americansā confidence in air transportation and the federal agencies tasked with maintaining air safety has slipped a little from last year, following a recent crash in Washington.
A timeline of last week's air disaster in Washington, the deadliest in the US since 2001
Read full article: A timeline of last week's air disaster in Washington, the deadliest in the US since 2001Almost a week after a helicopter and airplane collision in Washington killed 67 people, investigators are still at work as salvage crews pull out chunks of aircraft.
Remains of all 67 victims of the midair collision near DC recovered as NTSB probes altitude data
Read full article: Remains of all 67 victims of the midair collision near DC recovered as NTSB probes altitude dataThe remains of all 67 victims of the midair collision near Reagan National Airport have been recovered.
Salvage crews recover engine, large portion of jet from river after deadly air collision near DC
Read full article: Salvage crews recover engine, large portion of jet from river after deadly air collision near DCSalvage crews have recovered an engine and large pieces of fuselage and are working to retrieve a wing from wreckage of last weekās midair collision near Washingtonās Reagan National Airport.
Officials say remains of 55 of 67 victims of midair collision have been recovered and identified
Read full article: Officials say remains of 55 of 67 victims of midair collision have been recovered and identifiedAuthorities say they have recovered the remains of 55 of the 67 people killed in the deadliest U.S. air disaster since 2001.
Midair collision kills 67 people in the deadliest US air disaster in almost a quarter century
Read full article: Midair collision kills 67 people in the deadliest US air disaster in almost a quarter centuryA midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight from Kansas has killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft.
āHeartbreakingā search for those killed in DC air crash as army helicopter's black box recovered
Read full article: āHeartbreakingā search for those killed in DC air crash as army helicopter's black box recoveredInvestigators have announced that the black box from the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a commercial jetliner has been recovered.
āRisking lives to save othersā: Pilot recalls 1982 rescue of Air Florida Flight 90
Read full article: āRisking lives to save othersā: Pilot recalls 1982 rescue of Air Florida Flight 90Donald Usher, a former helicopter pilot who helped rescue survivors from the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 crash in the Potomac River, reflects on the emotional toll of that rescue as news of a similar tragedy unfolds in the same location.
Witness describes āspray of sparksā after AA jet and Army helicopter crash in DC
Read full article: Witness describes āspray of sparksā after AA jet and Army helicopter crash in DCAri Shulman said he often watches planes line up to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport during his drive home to Alexandria along the George Washington Parkway.
Remembering Air Florida Flight 90: Fort Lauderdale-bound jet that crashed in DC
Read full article: Remembering Air Florida Flight 90: Fort Lauderdale-bound jet that crashed in DCThe midair collision over the Potomac River on Wednesday brings back chilling memories of another tragedy in the same waters more than four decades agoāwhen Air Florida Flight 90, bound for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, stalled after takeoff and crashed into the icy river, killing 78 people.
Passenger jet with 64 aboard collides with Army helicopter while landing at Reagan Airport near DC
Read full article: Passenger jet with 64 aboard collides with Army helicopter while landing at Reagan Airport near DCAn American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members has collided with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River.
Southern East Coast hit by flooding as Ophelia weakens to tropical depression and moves north
Read full article: Southern East Coast hit by flooding as Ophelia weakens to tropical depression and moves northResidents in parts of coastal North Carolina and Virginia have experienced flooding after Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall near a North Carolina barrier island, bringing rain, damaging winds and dangerous surges.

New national marine sanctuary will protect WWI-era shipwrecks
Read full article: New national marine sanctuary will protect WWI-era shipwrecksCHARLES COUNTY, Md. - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has designated the first new national marine sanctuary since 2000. Forty miles south of Washington, the 18-square-mile stretch of the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland, has been named the Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary. "The designation of Mallows Bay as a national marine sanctuary is an exciting milestone for NOAA and an opportunity for the public to celebrate and help protect this piece of our nation's rich maritime history," Acting Administrator Neil Jacobs said in a statement Monday. The ships never participated in battle, and they were eventually brought to the Potomac River in order to be salvaged for scrap metal.