NTSB Hearings on DCA Crash Are a Day of Reckoning for FAA and U.S. Army

NTSB hearings on DCA crash are a day of reckoning for FAA and U.S. Army

The National Transportation Safety Board is now reviewing three days of testimony from last week’s public hearings into the Jan. 29 midair collision near Reagan National Airport that killed 67 people. One of the country’s leading aviation safety analysts believes that sweeping changes are likely to come not only to the operations near DCA, but to the entire aviation system as a result of this crash. Former NTSB and FAA investigator Jeff Guzzetti…

Deadly DC plane crash was years in the making, air traffic manager tells NTSB

The NTSB concluded three days of investigative hearings into the collision between an Army helicopter and a passenger plane that killed 67.

7 Revelations From Transport Safety Board’s Hearings Into DC’s Deadly Midair Collision

WASHINGTON—Three days of “fact-finding” hearings into a catastrophic crash between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a commercial jet concluded on Aug. 1, with new information shedding light on the events leading up to the collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington earlier this year. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), an independent agency tasked with investigating transportation accidents, has led the probe into t…

Deadly DC plane crash was years in the making, air traffic manager tells NTSB - Everett Post

(WASHINGTON) — The deadly mid-air collision at Reagan Airport in January was years in the making, the operations manager of the DCA air traffic control tower on the night of the accident told the National Transportation Safety Board on Friday. “I don’t think this accident occurred that night,” Clark Allen, the operations manager, said at the investigative hearing. “I think it happened years before we’ve talked about, you know, resources, whether…

Deadly DC plane crash was years in the making, air traffic manager tells NTSB - The Pulse of NH

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The deadly mid-air collision at Reagan Airport in January was years in the making, the operations manager of the DCA air traffic control tower on the night of the accident told the National Transportation Sa...

Deadly DC plane crash was years in the making, air traffic manager tells NTSB - Connect FM | Local News Radio | Dubois, PA

(WASHINGTON) — The deadly mid-air collision at Reagan Airport in January was years in the making, the operations manager of the DCA air traffic control tower on the night of the accident told the National Transportation Safety Board on Friday. “I don’t think this accident […]