Recovery crews have removed the first major pieces of airplane wreckage from the Potomac River after an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed in midair last week.
Between the volume of air traffic and the variety of aircraft, the airspace in the Washington area remains among the most complicated and restricted in the country.
A timeline of the tragic collision between a commercial plane and a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River, with insights into the ongoing investigation.
Airline pilots flying into Washington, D.C., have reported nearly a dozen near misses that were scarily similar to this week's midair collision that killed 67 people — the type of close calls that led ...