The Federal Aviation Administration says helicopters will be permanently banned from flying near Washington, D.C.’s airport on the route where an airliner and an Army helicopter collided in midair.
The move follows federal investigators's call for a ban on helo flights on the route, citing a string of near misses in ...
The closure of the helicopter route near the airport makes permanent restrictions put in place after the January 29 mid-air collision.
The closure comes after crash investigators said there was a history of safety risks near the busy airport that had gone ...
"We as a group can never go back to just getting on a plane and trusting that everything will be OK," one relative told Newsweek.
A U.S. House of Representatives oversight subcommittee said on Thursday it is investigating the collision in January between ...
The NTSB pointed out that the current flight paths of helicopters near Washington-National provide only 75 feet of separation ...
The NTSB issued its preliminary report on the midair collision between a passenger plane and helicopter over Washington, D.C.