Authorities investigating the cause of this week's midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a military helicopter have recovered the black boxes from both aircraft.
Flight tracking sites and air-traffic control logs show the Embraer E-175 was cleared to land and advised about a helicopter in its vicinity when its automated collision avoidance system pushed it ...
That means the helicopter's pilot requested permission to proceed, taking responsibility to look out for the plane and avoid it. The request was in response to a question by air traffic control ...
so why was that particular helicopter above 200 feet?” Marshall said. “Why didn’t air traffic control pick that up?” Cantwell, too, questioned the safety of military and commercial flights ...
The FAA’s hiring policies were brought up by US President Donald Trump as he went on an anti-diversity tirade after an American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in ...
In the minutes before an American Airlines flight crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, an air traffic controller requested a last-minute runway change. The regional jet ...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday announced it would restrict helicopter routes in the Washington region following a deadly collision this week between an Army Black Hawk and a ...
A trans member of the National Guard is speaking out after a wave of claims on social media falsely pointed to her as the pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet in ...
Three Army soldiers, one pilot and two crew members, were killed when their helicopter crashed into ... "shadow government" to maintain of control of government, according to an online White ...
An FAA official told Reuters that the agency is closing access to parts of the two helicopter routes near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via ...
Families are left ‘totally broken’ after rescuers recover victims of Washington DC crash The female pilot killed in the helicopter collision with a passenger jet in Washington DC will not be ...
According to reports, the FAA has restricted helicopter flights near Washington Reagan National Airport. More than 40 bodies have been pulled from the water surrounding Ronald Reagan National ...