The highest number of aviation deaths in one year on record, since the understandably high crash rate of the Forties ( Second World War) is 1972, when 3,346 died, the data states. But this was not an ...

Fatal crashes like the one that happened near Washington on Wednesday are increasingly rare because of modern aviation safety ...

The Army helicopter that collided with an American Airlines passenger jet was on a training flight, according to the U.S.