With another fatal plane crash in the headlines, many travelers may be worried about stepping onboard their next flight. Experts say that aviation is safe – though not without its problems.

Beyond major incidents, attritional losses in the aviation sector increased due to inflationary pressures and rising costs for new aircraft, spare parts, and labor. These factors affected even the most profitable airline accounts and contributed to underperformance in other areas.

Investigators have recovered the so-called black boxes from an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ-700 regional jet, which collided with a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday, killing 67 people.

The first report on last month’s Jeju Air crash in South Korea has confirmed traces of bird strikes in the plane’s engines, though officials haven’t determined the cause of the accident that killed al

An investigation into a fire that engulfed an Air Busan plane at a South Korean airport this week is being slowed by a large amount of fuel and oxygen still on board, an air crash investigation official told Reuters.

An investigation into a fire that engulfed an Air Busan plane at a South Korean airport this week is being slowed by a large amount of fuel and oxygen still on board, an air crash investigation official told Reuters.

South Korean officials are launching an investigation into the cause of the fire that engulfed an Air Busan passenger plane, with eyewitness accounts suggesting a power bank may have sparked the blaze.

The last deadly major crash involving a commercial airliner in the U.S. was in 2009, when 49 people — 45 passengers, 2 pilots and 2 flight attendants — aboard a Colgan Air flight crashed in New York state. One person also died on the ground.

A small American Airlines jet collided with a Sikorsky H-60 military helicopter on approach to Reagan Washington National Airport and crashed in to the Potomac River on Wednesday night.

Bird feathers and bloodstains were found in both engines of the Jeju Air plane that crashed in December, according to a preliminary investigation released Monday.

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A total of 179 people were killed in the worst aviation disaster on South Korean soil. Read more at straitstimes.com.