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 ...

The Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines plane was alerted to the plane’s presence by air control twice, the first time at least two minutes before the deadly crash ...

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 ...

Premium Washington DC Plane Crash Highlights: U.S. Coast Guard, along with other search and rescue teams, operate near debris at the crash site (Taylor Bacon/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout via Reuters ...

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.

A medical ambulance plane transporting a young girl who had just received life-saving treatment crashed on a street Friday night near the Roosevelt Mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jet Rescue ...

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 ...