HIGHFILL -- The Northwest Arkansas National Airport Board of Directors is giving Highfill officials until 5 p.m. Ron Wood has been a professional journalist in Arkansas for about 40 years.

The cone-shaped Spherex — at 1,110 pounds (500 kilograms) or the heft of a grand piano — will take six months to map the entire sky with its infrared eyes and wide field of view.

The recommendations were released alongside a preliminary investigative report on the Jan. 29 midair collision of an American Airlines jetliner and a military helicopter near Reagan National that ...

Ryan Seacrest surprised viewers when he poked fun at himself and his relationship history on Tuesday’s (March 11) episode of Wheel of Fortune, where he revealed his “biggest fear.” During ...

While pointing to a map of the airspace along the Potomac River and near DCA, Homendy told reporters that helicopters flying in a certain area over the eastern shoreline of the river have just 75 ...

The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending permanent changes to a helicopter route near D.C.'s Ronald Reagan National Airport after discovering helicopters were regularly flying as ...

National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy laid out frightening statistics about near misses to underscore the danger that has existed for years near Ronald Reagan National ...

The crash killed 67 people. The collision occurred as the American Airlines jet was approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport on Jan. 29. Among the victims were 28 members of the figure skating ...

The passenger jet was on approach to runway 33 at Reagan National Airport. On those routes, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said, a helicopter and a passenger jet can get as close as 75 feet, in a normal ...

The board recommended that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) permanently ban certain helicopter routes around the airport, also known as DCA, when specific runways are in use following the ...

The Washington, D.C., airspace is notoriously congested, and near midair collision (NMAC) data shows that one or more TCAS alerts involving helicopters and commercial jets occur at DCA every month.