With another fatal plane crash in the headlines, many travelers may be worried about stepping onboard their next flight.

in a news conference in the wake of a deadly aircraft crash. The National Transportation Safety Board plans to file a preliminary report for its investigation into the crash within 30 days ...

Seventy-seven years ago, a chartered Douglas DC-3 aircraft left Oakland, Calif., with 28 Mexican nationals being sent back to Mexico. Most were “braceros,” the slang term for Mexican laborers once ...

Fresno Bee Opinion Editor Juan Esparza Loera connects the 1948 plane crash that killed 28 Mexican nationals being deported to ...

A flight attendant held back tears. All the activity at the Northern Virginia airport, which resumed flight operations less than 24 hours after the fatal incident, was emblematic of the contradictions ...

Black boxes house critical flight data regarding aircraft and are designed to be resilient, with their retrieval typically a high priority after incidents.

Since its creation in 1967, the agency reports it has investigated more than 153,000 aviation accidents and incidents.

The NTSB has secured two separate flight recorders from the CRJ, and while data is being processed, the release of victim names will not occur. A Black Hawk black box is also being analyzed for flight ...