Before Wednesday’s crash near Washington, D.C., there had not been a fatal collision involving a commercial aircraft in the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Looking back at his career, retired Northwest Airlines Captain Woody Fountain has ... That's where he took his first flight with his professor Chuck Dryden, an original Tuskegee ...

All but one passenger died when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed on Aug. 16 ... Causes of the collision included “icy conditions, pilot training and fatigue,” according to Simple ...