Witness details moments before fatal Mississippi River helicopter-barge crash near Alton ...

The National Transportation Safety Board will hold three days of hearings starting Wednesday ... a New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair and crashed upside-down into the Hudson ...

The US Airways flight hit the birds at 3,000 feet, the NTSB says. That caused a total engine failure, and the plane hit the river 3.5 minutes later. "Brace! Brace! Head down!" ...

According to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), a Hughes 369D helicopter struck transmission lines over the river and crashed into the barge at 11:05 a.m. The barge then caught fire.

The family of Sam Lilley, the co-pilot of a January flight that collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., has become respected advocates for air safety.

Two people were killed after a helicopter crashed into a barge on the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis.