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GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released a statement following the deadly American Airlines plane crash that happened near Washington, D.C. Wednesday night. The FAA has standard routes into and out of airports that keep ...
A regional jet carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Reagan National Airport grounded all flights.
Search efforts continue after an American Airlines plane from Wichita, with 64 people on board, collided with an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., and crashed into the Potomac River.
Before the additional flights were approved, a senator warned that the increase could heighten the risk of collisions.
Patrick Hempen, the now-retired FAA director of aviation accident investigations, said several failures have to happen for a collision like this to happen.
Officials believe there are no survivors after a passenger plane on approach to Reagan National Airport near Washington, DC, collided Wednesday night with a US Army helicopter midair, sending both aircraft into the Potomac River below,
Multiple 911 callers reported the crash near the river just before 8:55 p.m., according to the Metropolitan Police Department and the District of Columbia Fire and EMS.
A plane collided in midair with a helicopter approaching Reagan Washington National Airport, near the Potomac River, Wednesday night, officials set. A rescue operation was underway, officials said. Multiple 911 callers reported the crash near the river just before 8:55 p.
The number of fully trained air-traffic controllers at the Federal Aviation Administration handling aviation operations in the Washington area have declined in recent years, according to the agency. A
A judge in Washington, D.C., sided with plaintiffs who claimed the White House’s freezing of billions of dollars in congressionally-approved funding violated the law.