Understaffing, poor working conditions and outdated technology have for years strained the system that keeps planes from ...

For at least 20 years, pilots have complained about near misses in the airspace above Reagan National Airport, an NBC 5 Investigates review shows.

The fatal D.C. plane crash has renewed focus on the recent history of crashes and near misses in U.S. airspace.

The previous near-misses between planes and helicopters at DCA airport were detailed in NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System database, which records incidents reported by aviation personnel.

“Even one is one too many,” he said. The near misses in 2024 followed several high-profile incidents that the National Transportation Safety Board investigated the prior year, including one in ...

Mr Slack's experience of a near-miss is not an isolated incident. Just 24 hours before the deadly collision, a military helicopter came too close to a different regional jet, which then performed a ...

The deadly air collision that killed 67 people in Washington, DC Wednesday night came amid an air traffic control staffing crisis and alarmingly high rates of near-misses on airport runaways.

Experts point to increased air traffic congestion as a contributing factor to a rise in near-misses and close calls ... to discuss with my people, is the safety culture, the training, maintenance ...

But the accident follows a long string of alarming near collisions at airports across the country—a pattern suggesting that the aviation-safety systems upon which human life depends are under ...

The incident has renewed focus on the recent history of crashes and near misses in the U.S., which ... system that we have today and the safety record that we've had over all these years ...