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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

Six passengers of a medical jet and one person on the ground were killed after the plane crashed in a Philadelphia neighborhood on Friday evening, officials said. Hospitals in the city report at ...

The teen walked into Signature Aviation, a business providing aviation services at the airport, on Tuesday morning, armed with a high-power rifle and handgun, and demanded a plane at the front ...

No one was injured, SeaTac Airport said. The right wing of a taxiing Japan Airlines flight hit the tail of a parked Delta plane at Seattle's SeaTac Airport on Wednesday, according to the airport ...

Both men have been charged in connection with making an unauthorized copy of Airports Authority records related to the Jan. 29 plane collision, according to MWAA. The suspects apparently leaked ...

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 ...

Report shows numerous holes in fuselage of doomed plane Thirty-eight people were killed ... national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations ...

In a briefing on Saturday, Feb. 1, officials from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) told reporters that the Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the plane between 300 feet and 350 feet ...