This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Captain RK Smithley, a pilot flying McDonnell Douglas DC-10 widebody airliners converted into tanker planes for a New Mexico-based company ...

Ari Shulman said he often watches planes line up to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport during his drive home to Alexandria along the George Washington Parkway.

U.S. Figure Skating and The Kremlin announced Thursday that two World Champions were in the American Airlines jet that collided with a U.S. Army helicopter on Wednesday night in Washington, D.C.