Reagan airport was at the center of a fierce safety debate last year. Lawmakers approved more flights anyway - ‘We’ve been pretty plain about our [safety] concerns, but it isn’t a good time to speculate right now,

The plan to add five incoming and five outgoing flights was included in the bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act last year.

American Eagle Flight 5342 en route from Wichita, Kansas (ICT), to Washington, D.C. (DCA) was involved in an accident at DCA. Rescue operation is underway and US President Donald Trump has said that t

God forbid waking up and looking in a mirror one day and say, ‘Wow, I was warned. I was warned and I shouldn’t have done this,’” Kaine said in 2024.

Before the additional flights were approved, a senator warned that the increase could heighten the risk of collisions.

U.S. authorities said on Thursday it was not yet clear why a regional jet crashed into a U.S. Army helicopter at a Washington airport, killing 67 people in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in more than 20 years.

Lawmakers have an interest in boosting direct flights to their states because Reagan is closer to downtown than Dulles.

Recovery work continues at the crash site in Washington, where all 64 people on board an American Airlines flight died along with three soldiers on a military helicopter. Meanwhile, a report has found air traffic control tower staffing was "not normal" for the time of day.

Black box' cockpit voice and flight recordings recovered from wreckage - Officials say there are no survivors among the 67 passengers on the aircrafts that collided above Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump said there were no survivors when an American Airlines flight collided with a Black Hawk by Reagan National Airport.

Investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the Bombardier CRJ700 passenger jet, the National Transportation Safety Board said