See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

The spate of recent aviation disasters and close calls have people worried about the safety of flying.

The Army was one of 28 government agencies authorized to fly helicopters near Ronald Reagan National Airport before its Black ...

An American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Jan. 29. Both aircraft plunged into the Potomac River near Reagan Airport.

Senator Ted Cruz, the chairman of the committee with oversight of transportation, said there was no compelling reason for the ...

More than a week after the horrific helicopter-plane collision near Washington, salvage crews have recovered most of the wreckage.

The scan has been scheduled for around 2 a.m. on Friday. MPD warned anyone who might be looking at the river to look away while the scan takes place.

Investigators trying to determine what caused last week’s deadly midair collision between a US military Black Hawk helicopter ...

Meanwhile, the authorities also recovered some additional parts of the American Airlines plane that was about to land at the ...

The Black Hawk was performing a training mission in an effort to renew 28-year-old Captain Rebecca M. Lobach's annual ...

A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the river, by the Ronald ...

A key safety system was turned off on the US Army helicopter that collided with an American Airlines regional jet last week ...