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

Pilots and flight attendants are aware of risks, but commercial aviation tragedies have been infrequent in the U.S. for years ...

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

Andy Beyer went to Reagan National Airport to pick up his wife Justyne and 12-year-old daughter Brielle from a ice skating ...

Hundreds of families are in mourning after an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, with both aircraft plunging into the Potomac River near ...

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