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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 ...
NTSB criticizes FAA for failing to act before fatal Army helicopter collision
The head of the National Transportation Safety Board sharply criticized U.S. officials for failing to act before the January ...
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 ...
She 'was a real person': Mom of crash victim speaks out as FAA faces scrutiny
As hearings unfold into the fatal January plane-helicopter collision near D.C., investigators say the FAA ignored clear ...
Aircraft in DCA collision lacked certain anti-collision systems, NTSB says
NTSB investigators found Friday that the aircraft involved in the mid-air collision over DCA lacked certain collision ...
FAA, NTSB arrive on Block Island to investigate plane crash
Sophia Szabo reports from Block Island, where a 77-year-old man was killed and two other people were injured when a small ...
Worries over military chopper routes, FAA staffing levels emerge as factors in midair crash inquiry
Long-standing concerns about military helicopters flying in crowded airspace and worries over short staffing among federal ...
FAA faces scrutiny in NTSB hearings on deadly midair collision
The NTSB hearing is patining a picture of a control tower that was understaffed and ill-equipped to handle the traffic if ...
Tower failed to warn plane of Black Hawk’s path before D.C. crash, FAA says
It was the first acknowledgment by the Federal Aviation Administration of a possible error by the controller in the moments ...