The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is leading the removal effort, which will first focus on retrieving the mangled passenger plane before turning to the helicopter and its associated debris.

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A Japan Airlines plane taxiing across the tarmac at Seattle-Tacoma Airport Wednesday morning struck a parked Delta Airlines plane — leaving the planes damaged but nobody hurt, according to reports.

A US-contracted surveillance plane crashed in the Philippines on Thursday morning, killing all four personnel on board, including one US military service member, according to US Indo-Pacific Command.

Investigators are still working to learn what went wrong on a clear evening when the passenger plane was just a few hundred feet from landing at Reagan Washington National Airport. Officials said ...

A "seized" sign is placed on a Venezuelan government airplane during a news conference where U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced its seizure at La Isabela International Airport in Santo ...

A 15-year-old boy stormed a small regional airport in Arkansas with an AR-style rifle while demanding a plane — until he was stopped by a “heroic” pilot who ran and grabbed his own gun ...

The six passengers traveling on a medical jet before it crashed in Northeast Philadelphia Friday night have been identified by the Mexico-based company that was operating the small plane.

Exactly one week after a passenger plane and Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed midair near D.C., killing 67, a Japan Airlines plane and Delta Air Lines plane collided on the ground in Seattle.

Both men have been charged in connection with making an unauthorized copy of Airports Authority records related to the Jan. 29 plane collision, according to MWAA. The suspects apparently leaked ...

A 37-year-old Philadelphia resident was also found dead inside his vehicle after the plane crash, authorities said. "The right wing of Japan Airlines Flight 68 struck the tail of Delta Air Lines ...

No one was injured, SeaTac Airport said. The right wing of a taxiing Japan Airlines flight hit the tail of a parked Delta plane at Seattle's SeaTac Airport on Wednesday, according to the airport ...