Mr Slack, a licensed pilot and now aviation attorney, was sitting in the right pilot seat as his plane prepared to land on ...

The crash near Reagan National was the first major aviation disaster involving a U.S. airline since 2009—long enough that ...

Pilot Mike Slack was in the cockpit during a descent into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport nearly two decades ago when he noticed something on the runway. Mr Slack, a licensed pilot and ...

"That was one of those moments you go, 'Man that was close and that was tight,'" he told the BBC. While near-misses at the airport and across the country are far from the norm, and fatal collisions ...

Mr Slack's experience of a near-miss is not an isolated incident. Just 24 hours before the deadly collision, a military helicopter came too close to a different regional jet, which then performed ...