Investigators are piecing together why a passenger jet and military helicopter collided in the skies near Washington, D.C., killing all 67 on board both aircraft.

In 1961, the entire U.S. figure skating team died in a plane crash. Losing a generation of top-level athletes and their coaches hobbled the U.S. The DCA crash and brought back difficult memories.

The flight data and voice recorders, known as black boxes, have been recovered after the midair collision of a passenger jet and an Army helicopter in the Washington, DC, area, the National ...