The NTSB is calling for immediate changes at Reagan National Airport following a deadly mid-air collision involving an ...
Investigators issued their preliminary report Tuesday in the probe into the devastating crash between an American Airlines plane and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter.
The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday recommended that helicopter traffic be banned from a four-mile stretch ...
Helicopters will be permanently restricted from flying near Washington, D.C.'s airport on the same route where a passenger ...
Current airport flight safety practices create an "intolerable safety risk" that could be eliminated by changing allowed ...
The closure of the helicopter route near the airport makes permanent the restrictions put in place after Jan. 29 midair ...
The move follows federal investigators's call for a ban on helo flights on the route, citing a string of near misses in ...
The NTSB is recommending that the Federal Aviation ... The three soldiers in the helicopter were conducting an annual training flight and night vision goggle check at the time of the collision.
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy ... The helicopter was on a training mission. A preliminary analysis of the flight data and voice recorder on board the Black Hawk indicated its altimeter may have ...
The NTSB earlier in the day announced a number ... Airport when it was struck by an Army Black Hawk helicopter on a training mission. Both fell into the Potomac River after the collision.