Safety mechanisms designed to handle rare events can become unreliable under sustained or intense fault conditions.

The U.S. government admitted in a court filing Wednesday that it was partially at fault in a midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that ...

All 67 people on board the plane and the helicopter were killed. An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ...

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Just a day and a half before it was set to be broadcast, new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a planned 60 Minutes investigative segment centering on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Eric's career includes extensive work in both public and corporate accounting with ...