Federal private investigators have raised issues of a capacity for another fatal plane crash at Reagan National Airport, after a midair crash earlier this year killed 67.
The National Transportation Safety Board provided an upgrade on their examination into the reason for the catastrophe which took place on January 29 in Washington.
An American Airlines jetliner and a Black Hawk military helicopter clashed in midair over the Potomac River, eliminating everybody on board both airplanes.
As part of a preliminary report launched on Tuesday, investigators raised concerns of more collisions involving helicopters at the airport.
NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy said: 'We stay worried about the considerable capacity for future mid-air crash at DCA.'
Her concerns focus on Transport Secretary Sean Duffy relocating to restrict helicopter traffic around the location, however that is set to stop at the end of the month.
When police, medical or governmental transport helicopters need to utilize the space civilian airplanes are stopped from remaining in the exact same area.
Homendy said the NTSB is now advising that the FAA discover a 'permanent option' for detours for helicopters when 2 of the airport's runways remain in use.
Emergency systems respond after a guest airplane hit a helicopter in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia
Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) Jennifer Homendy speaks to press reporters about the 29 January mid-air accident
It was also revealed on Tuesday that there was alerting check in the lead up to the lethal disaster.
Those penetrating the crash went through 944,179 operations between October 2021 and December 2024.
It was discovered that 15,214 'near-miss events' of aircrafts getting notifies about helicopters remaining in close distance between October 2021 and December 2024.
The NTSB also stated that there were 85 cases where two airplane where laterally divided by less than 1,500 feet, and a vertical separation of less than 200 feet.
Homendy included: 'That information from October 2021 through December 2024, (the FAA) might have used that info at any time to determine that we have a trend here and a problem here, and looked at that path
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