Southwest Airlines was formed in 1967 as Air Southwest Co., becoming Southwest Airlines Co. by 1971. It was a purely ...

PSA Airlines, the carrier involved in the mid-air accident over Washington, ironically preserves the name of another airline whose involvement in two mid-air collisions contributed to as pairspace ...

The airport is one of the largest in South Texas, covering an area of over 2,500 acres with ample room nearby that is ...

These near misses are extremely common,” said Ross Aimer, a retired United Airlines Captain who’s now CEO of Aero Consulting ...

I directed a more aggressive climb,” the plane’s captain later reported, “due to aircraft appearing to continue to climb into us.” Neither close call ended in disaster, but both were reported to a ...

The NTSB is continuing its investigation into the collision between the Black Hawk helicopter and the regional passenger jet ...

There appears little doubt that most of the blame for Wednesday night’s fatal mid-air collision in Washington lies with the three-person crew of a US Army Blackhawk helicopter. It collided with an ...

and a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 struck by a Cesna single-engine propeller plane over San Diego in 1978 that killed 144. And the U.S. passenger death rate per 100 million miles for ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found no evidence of foul play and blamed the crash on errors by the pilot, who failed to retract the plane’s spoilers, or air brakes, at the critical ...