Federal investigators have actually raised concerns of a potential for another fatal plane crash at Reagan National Airport, after a midair accident earlier this year killed 67.
The National Transportation Safety Board gave an update on their examination into the reason for the catastrophe which took place on January 29 in Washington.
An American Airlines jetliner and a Black Hawk military helicopter collided in midair over the Potomac River, killing everybody on board both aircrafts.
As part of a preliminary report launched on Tuesday, private investigators raised issues of more collisions including helicopters at the airport.
NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy stated: 'We remain concerned about the substantial capacity for future mid-air crash at DCA.'
Her issues focus on Transport Secretary Sean Duffy relocating to limit helicopter traffic around the area, however that is set to cease at the end of the month.
When authorities, medical or presidential transportation helicopters should use the area civilian planes are stopped from remaining in the same area.
Homendy said the NTSB is now recommending that the FAA find a 'long-term option' for detours for helicopters when two of the airport's runways remain in usage.
Emergency systems react after a passenger aircraft clashed with a helicopter in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia
Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) Jennifer Homendy speaks to reporters about the 29 January mid-air crash
It was likewise exposed on Tuesday that there was cautioning signs in the lead up to the deadly catastrophe.
Those probing the crash went through 944,179 operations between October 2021 and December 2024.
It was revealed that 15,214 'near-miss occasions' of planes getting alerts about helicopters remaining in close distance between October 2021 and December 2024.
The NTSB likewise stated that there were 85 cases where 2 airplane where laterally split by less than 1,500 feet, and a vertical separation of less than 200 feet.
Homendy added: 'That information from October 2021 through December 2024, (the FAA) might have used that details at any time to determine that we have a trend here and an issue here, and took a look at that route
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