Helicopter crew in collision with plane may not have heard key instruction from tower, NTSB says
The crew of the helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet near Washington D.C.’s Ronald Reagan National ...
Helicopter in mid-air collision with flight 5342 may not have heard key instruction
The National Transportation Safety Board is holding a media briefing on the mid-air collision last month near Ronald Reagan ...
DC News Now on MSN13h
Reagan National parking: Construction project means hundreds of economy spaces unavailable
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) is building a new structure to improve parking, but before that happens, up ...
KHOU 111d
No, viral radar video doesn’t show helicopter in DC crash nearly collide with other aircraft
On the evening of Jan. 29, a military helicopter crashed into a commercial passenger plane that was attempting to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport ... radar’s map very near ...
The New Yorker13d
How to Understand the Reagan Airport Crash
But even before the National Transportation Safety Board completes its investigation—a neurotically thorough process that ...
The New York Times13d
Reagan Airport Had a Number of Close Calls in Recent Years
By Emily Steel and Sydney Ember Before the deadly plane crash on Wednesday night near Ronald Reagan National Airport, there were at least 10 close calls at the Washington airport in the last three ...
Yahoo News14d
Nearly All Helicopter Traffic Around Reagan National Airport Has Been Shut Down
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has banned virtually all helicopter flights around Reagan National Airport and parts of the surrounding ... are also closed to helicopter traffic. A map of ...
CBS News14d
FAA plane, chopper nearly collided in 2018 incident near Reagan National Airport
A helicopter was forced to take evasive action to avoid colliding with a plane that was landing at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., during a July 2018 incident that mirrored the ...
Wall Street Journal14d
How a Plane and a Helicopter Collided in a Crowded Airspace Around Reagan Airport
Shortly before 9 p.m. on Wednesday evening, American Airlines Flight 5342 approached the runway at Reagan Washington National Airport. Moments later the passenger jet collided with an Army Black ...
WPRI 1214d
First flight from Reagan Airport arrives at TF Green after deadly crash
WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — Since Wednesday night’s fatal plane crash, only one flight has arrived at T.F. Green from Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. The passengers aboard Southwest ...
New York Post14d
Understaffed, overworked crews plagued Reagan Airport before DC plane crash, lawmakers say
Understaffed and overworked air traffic control crews have long been an issue at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, lawmakers and former operators say — another potential cause of the ...
NBC Washington14d
Pilots have long worried about DC's complex airspace contributing to a catastrophe
The airspace around Washington, D.C., is congested and complex — a combination aviation experts have long worried could lead to catastrophe. Those fears materialized Wednesday night when an ...