Dennis Daily: Death rained from the skies over suburban Los Angeles in late August. An Aeromexico DC-9 on a landing approach to LA International Airport was struck was by a light plane.

Details from the deadly crash between an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in D.C. harkens back to a similar plane crash in Cerritos ...

after the 1986 collision of an Aeromexico jetliner and a private plane. (Rod Boren/AP) Midair collisions like Wednesday’s crash are rare in the U.S., partly thanks to advances in cockpit technology.