Before Wednesday's crash between a passenger jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter, the last fatal crash involving a U.S. commercial airline occurred in 2009 in New York.
The U.S. has gone 12 years without a fatal crash of an airline-operated jetliner, according to a database from the Aviation Safety Network. The most recent was in July 2013, when a Boeing 777 operated ...
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Wednesday's crash involving an American Airlines flight and Black Hawk helicopter marked the first commercial crash on U.S. soil in more than 15 years.