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FAA planning more helicopter route changes after fatal collision
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it is planning additional helicopter route changes near Ronald Reagan ...
Night vision goggles may have hampered helicopter pilots before crash with jet, experts tell NTSB
The goggles also limited the pilots' peripheral vision as they flew near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
‘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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Forget Dulles & Reagan: Fly To Washington DC’s Most Underrated Airport Instead
Baltimore/Washington International Airport has made strides in recent years to become a more prominent airport in the ...
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 ...
Military chopper traffic over Washington was concerning before fatal midair crash, NTSB hears
Military helicopter traffic over Washington was a longtime worry among aviators operating around the airport where an Army ...
NTSB launches hearings on deadly Washington collision between a helicopter and passenger plane
Three days of investigative hearings on the deadly midair collision over Washington in January begin Wednesday.