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<br>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.<br> |
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<br>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.<br> |
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<br>An American Airlines jetliner and a Black Hawk military helicopter clashed in midair over the Potomac River, eliminating everybody on board both airplanes.<br> |
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<br>As part of a preliminary report launched on Tuesday, investigators raised concerns of more collisions involving helicopters at the airport.<br> |
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<br>NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy said: 'We stay worried about the considerable capacity for future mid-air crash at DCA.'<br> |
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<br>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.<br> |
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<br>When police, medical or governmental transport helicopters need to utilize the space civilian airplanes are stopped from remaining in the exact same area.<br> |
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<br>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.<br> |
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<br>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<br> |
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<br>Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) Jennifer Homendy speaks to press reporters about the 29 January mid-air accident<br> |
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<br>It was also revealed on Tuesday that there was alerting check in the lead up to the lethal disaster.<br> |
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<br>Those penetrating the crash went through 944,179 operations between October 2021 and December 2024.<br> |
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<br>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.<br> |
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<br>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.<br> |
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<br>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 |
