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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 ...
‘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 ...
NTSB questions controller's failure to alert jet before January crash in Washington, DC
The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday questioned the failure of an air traffic controller to issue a warning ...
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 the Washington region.
Military chopper traffic over Washington was a worry leading up to fatal midair crash, NTSB hears
Military helicopter traffic over Washington was a longtime worry among aviators operating around the airport where an Army ...
NTSB questions flight training procedures during hearings over January plane crash
The NTSB continued its hearings Thursday into the deadly air collision between a military aircraft and a passenger jet.
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 ...
Investigators to wrap up public hearings into fatal midair crash between Army chopper and airplane
The National Transportation Safety Board will wrap up its public testimony on Friday about the fatal midair crash between an ...
Some air traffic controllers wanted to close a helicopter route near Washington’s airport. It was abandoned as ‘too political.’
An ad hoc working group that included air traffic controllers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport previously sought changes to a helicopter route at the center of an investigation into what ...
Black Hawk Battled Bad Altitude Data Before Washington Crash
Safety investigators probing January’s midair collision between an American Airlines Group Inc. regional jet and a US Army ...
NTSB opens hearings on deadly Washington collision between a helicopter and passenger plane
The National Transportation Safety Board has started investigative hearings on the deadly midair collision over Washington in ...