Broken Altimeter, Ignored Warnings: Hearings Reveal What Went Wrong in DC Crash that Killed 67 Over three days of sometimes contentious hearings this week, the National Transportation Safety Board interrogated Federal...
Reckoning with Mortality: The Hidden Toll of Being a Military Family in the Aviation Community "The aviation community is very small. The rotary aviation world is even smaller. Since I met my husband in 2010, we have not...
Families of Those Killed in Black Hawk Collision with Jet Want More 'Openness, Compassion' from Army A letter addressed to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll calls on the service to communicate directly with the families in the wake...
Army Identifies 101st Airborne Pilot Killed in Apache Helicopter Crash Over the course of his career, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dustin K. Wright earned numerous decorations, including the Air Medal...
One Soldier Dead, Another Injured in Fort Campbell Helicopter Training Crash A soldier was killed and another injured during an aviation training mission Wednesday evening at Fort Campbell, Kentucky...
Pentagon Lost Contact with Army Helicopter on Flight That Caused Jets to Nix Landings at DC Airport The aborted landings on May 1 added to general unease about continued close calls between government helicopters and...
National Guard Helicopter Crew Landed on Montana Ranch and Trespassed to Take Antlers, Citations Say Three Montana Army National Guard members face trespassing charges after authorities said they landed a Black Hawk helicopter...
Hotline Between Military and Air Traffic Controllers in Washington Hasn't Worked for over 3 Years The Federal Aviation Administration official in charge of air traffic controllers, Frank McIntosh, confirmed the agency didn...
New Report Shows NYC Helicopter Breaking Apart in Midair Before Crash that Killed 6 Federal officials released images of a doomed New York City sightseeing helicopter as it broke apart in midair last month...
Weather and Night Vision Goggles Were Likely Factors in Marine Corps Helicopter Crash, Report Finds The CH-53 Super Stallion crashed Feb. 6, 2024, during a late night flight when it hit a mountain near Pine Valley, California...
Watchdog Finds 50% Increase in VA Medical Center Jobs with 'Severe' Shortages This year, Veterans Health Administration facilities reported 4,434 severe occupational staffing shortages in jobs ranging...
4 Out of 5 US Troops Surveyed Understand the Duty to Disobey Illegal Orders With his Aug. 11, 2025, announcement that he was sending the National Guard – along with federal law enforcement – into...
National Guard Rehearsed Show of Force Against Immigration Raid Protesters, General Testifies National Guard troops repeatedly rehearsed their role in an operation at a Los Angeles park intended as a show of force...
San Diego Espionage Trial Begins for Sailor Accused of Spying for His Native China Jinchao “Patrick” Wei, 25, is accused of seven counts of conspiracy, espionage and charges related to unlawfully sending...
Trump and Putin Will Meet at an Alaska Military Base Long Used to Counter Russia The base created by merging Elmendorf Air Force Base and Army Fort Richardson in 2010 has played a key strategic role in...
![Flight path of Army Black Hawk "PAT23" on a May 1, 2025](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-05/ApNewsroom_Army_Helicopter_Aborted_Landing_22282.jpg?itok=GOBdjEpf "This image provided by the U.S. Army shows a screenshot of data from the Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast, or ADS-B, of the flight path of Army Black Hawk "PAT23" on a May 1, 2025, flight that led to air traffic controllers aborting the landings of two commercial jets. (U.S. Army via AP)")
