Add 'Crash Warning as Report into DC Disaster at Reagan Airport Is Released'

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+<br>Federal investigators have actually raised concerns of a capacity for another lethal aircraft crash at Reagan National Airport, after a midair crash earlier this year eliminated 67.<br>
+<br>The National Transportation Safety Board provided an update on their examination into the cause of the catastrophe which happened on January 29 in Washington.<br>
+<br>An American Airlines jetliner and a Black Hawk military helicopter clashed in midair over the Potomac River, killing everyone on board both airplanes.<br>
+<br>As part of an initial report released on Tuesday, investigators raised concerns of more crashes involving helicopters at the airport.<br>
+<br>NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy said: 'We remain concerned about the substantial capacity for future mid-air collision at DCA.'<br>
+<br>Her issues focus on Transport Secretary Sean Duffy transferring to limit helicopter traffic around the location, however that is set to stop at the end of the month.<br>
+<br>When authorities, medical or presidential transport helicopters must utilize the space civilian airplanes are stopped from being in the exact same area.<br>
+<br>Homendy stated the NTSB is now recommending that the FAA find a 'long-term service' for alternate routes for helicopters when two of the airport's runways are in use.<br>
+<br>Emergency units respond after a guest aircraft hit a helicopter in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia<br>
+<br>Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) Jennifer Homendy speaks to reporters about the 29 January mid-air accident<br>
+<br>It was also exposed on Tuesday that there was cautioning signs in the lead up to the lethal disaster.<br>
+<br>Those penetrating the crash went through 944,179 operations between October 2021 and December 2024.<br>
+<br>It was discovered that 15,214 'near-miss events' of airplanes getting alerts about helicopters being in close proximity in between October 2021 and December 2024.<br>
+<br>The NTSB also said that there were 85 cases where two aircraft where laterally split by less than 1,500 feet, and a vertical separation of less than 200 feet.<br>
+<br>Homendy added: 'That information from October 2021 through December 2024, (the FAA) might have utilized that info any time to determine that we have a trend here and an issue here, and took a look at that path