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NTSB hearing reveals air traffic controllers should have warned passenger plane about helicopter before collision, but didn’t
The National Transportation Safety Board will question witnesses Thursday about air traffic control training, a key part of ...
Controllers asked for fewer flights at Reagan National before a midair collision. That never happened.
It needs to be addressed and we didn’t address it," said Bryan Lehman, an air traffic manager at a large control facility in ...
Why In The World Does Reagan National Airport Have A Complicated Approach Path?
Washington Ronald Reagan National Airport is the older of the two major airports in the area, commencing operations in 1941 as Washington National Airport. Dulles opened later and was designated as ...
‘We just make it work’: Strained air traffic culture at Reagan National Airport exposed by NTSB crash inquiry
Federal investigators investigating the deadly midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport described a ...
‘Least safe it has ever been,’ witness says of Reagan airspace at NTSB hearing
A witness criticized the safety of the airspace around Ronald Reagan National Airport since a mid-air crash in January, as ...
Six months later: Here are the victims of the Washington, D.C. plane crash
They were fiancés, mothers, fathers, friends, pilots, lawyers, hunters, coaches and figure skaters. These are the 67 people ...
The Biggest Unanswered Questions About the Reagan Airport Crash
Six months after a midair collision killed 67 people outside Washington, transportation safety officials will hear testimony ...
FAA To Revise Helicopter Routes Near Reagan National Following January Mid-Air Crash
The FAA plans more changes to helicopter routes near Reagan Airport to improve safety, after fatal mid-air collision in ...
NTSB hearings will focus on fatal Army helicopter-passenger jet crash. Here’s what to know
The National Transportation Safety Board will hold three days of hearings on the fatal midair collision between a passenger ...
'Just make it work': NTSB investigates air traffic control culture after deadly collision
The National Transportation Safety Board is examining the air traffic control practices at Reagan National Airport following ...
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TSA Intercepts Gun at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) stopped a Virginia man with a loaded gun at a security checkpoint on Sunday, June 8. The ...