In response to that release, the FAA said it had addressed the issue and was not aware of any affected parts being in service at U.S. airlines. The NTSB chair suggests that the FAA was not doing ...

The NTSB issued “urgent safety recommendations” last week about the issue to both The Boeing Company and to the FAA, Homendy said in her letter. “I remain concerned that the FAA, as a whole, did not ...

The NTSB found that helicopter routes established by the FAA lacked "defined lateral boundaries." Consequently, between October 2021 and December 2024 at DCA, there were 15,214 instances where ...

The FAA has removed helicopter routes 4 and 6 from the area around DCA and revised Route 7 to extend west of the airport. These changes are aimed at preventing future mid-air conflicts between ...

Homendy and the leaders of the FAA and Army's aviation division will all testify. Former NTSB Chairman Jim Hall said the FAA clearly should have been doing more with the information it has on hand ...

The chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board says that "there's a serious safety issue" in the airspace surrounding Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Both aircraft plunged ...

The NTSB said airplane pilots were alerted to take evasive action to avoid hitting helicopters at least once a month from 2011 through 2024, citing data compiled by the FAA, and that there were 85 ...

Someone should have spotted the alarming number of near misses in the skies over the nation’s capital before the fatal midair collision that killed 67 people in January, and reviewing the data ...