In the aviation accidents discussion, these most turbulent flight routes receive weighing scrutiny from passengers.

No flight is guaranteed to be turbulence-free. But you may be surprised to learn that some routes are more prone to it than ...

A few minutes before the jet was to land, air traffic controllers asked American Airlines Flight 5342 if it could do so on a ...

23, again because of a helicopter. "They had to circle back around because there was a helicopter in the flight path," said RIchard Hart, a passenger on the Jan. 23 flight who spoke to the ...

ADSBexchange was able to triangulate the flight path of the helicopter using multilateration (MLAT). A FlightRadar24 video describes MLAT as a flight tracking technique that determines aircraft ...

After a fiery impact, both aircraft plunged into the dark and frigid Potomac River. The three-person helicopter crew was on a "routine annual re-training of night flights on a standard corridor for a ...

The Army Black Hawk is said to have been flying higher than it should have been when it collided with a passenger jet, killing 67 people. And the air traffic controller on duty was doing a job usually ...

Air traffic controllers at Reagan National Airport exchanged messages with the U.S. Army soldier piloting the Sikorsky UH-60 ...

A single controller was left to handle the air traffic of planes and helicopters flying over the airspace when two people would typically be monitoring both flight paths, sources told NBC.

According to Dallas aviation attorney and pilot Ladd Sanger, the long-established flight paths along Route Four and Runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport have posed challenges.