US EditionHotline connecting Pentagon, DC airport controllers inoperable since 2022: FAA
- A hotline between air traffic controllers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and the Pentagon has not worked since March 2022, as revealed by the Federal Aviation Administration during a congressional hearing.
- The FAA was unaware of the hotline's failure until a May 1 incident where a helicopter caused two flights to abort landings, according to Franklin McIntosh, the FAA's deputy chief operating officer.
- Military flights to the Pentagon have been suspended since the incident, and will not resume until the hotline is repaired, McIntosh stated.
- The helicopter involved in the May 1 incident was the same unit that collided with an Army Blackhawk helicopter in January.
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DC air traffic hotline on the fritz for 3 years
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