In order to enable safe flight, airspace is split into categories ranging from very tightly-controlled areas around airports to other zones – mostly rural – where rules are much more relaxed.

While some pilots have complained that the airspace around Reagan National Airport has become overly crowded and potentially unsafe, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin stopped short of acknowledging such ...

American Airlines jet and a military helicopter near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is impacting air travel in the Tri-State ...

American Eagle flight 5342 collided with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River, home to some of the country's most restricted airspace.

No one survived the horrific collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet near Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C.