The head of the agency investigating the deadly midair collision that killed 67 said Wednesday that someone should have ...
Moving forward, the NTSB said it will be conducting a comprehensive visibility study in night conditions, as well as accident simulations using Black Hawk helicopters in order to gather more data ...
The NTSB chair, Jennifer Homendy, has appeared before a Congress subcommittee where she was questioned about the January 2025 ...
The National Transportation Safety Board said the separation between helicopters and jets in the area was insufficient and increased “chances of a midair collision.” ...
The deadly crash took place in January when a military helicopter collided with a passenger jet, killing 67 people.
Lawmakers questioned why the FAA hadn't addressed close calls at Reagan Airport prior to a collision between an Army ...
“We’ve determined that the existing separation distances between helicopter traffic operating on Route 4 and aircraft landing ...
The agency says the approved helicopter route is too close to the approach to the runway where an American Eagle plane was attempting to land in January.
If investigators were able to quickly find alarming data about the number of close calls in the years before the midair ...
NTSB Board Chair Jennifer Homendy called the ... was approaching Reagan Airport from Wichita, Kansas, as an Army Black Hawk helicopter with three soldiers on board was practicing emergency ...
The collision occurred as the evening flight was a half- mile short of the runway and the Black Hawk was flying at an ... said Jennifer Homendy, the NTSB chair. The director of U.S. Army Aviation ...
“The FAA will continue to closely support the NTSB-led investigation and take ... Rescue and salvage crews pull up a part of a Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair with an American ...