Pilots who land at Reagan National face a unique set of complications, including short runways, scores of helicopters and a ...
American Eagle Flight 5342 was seconds away from landing at Reagan National when it collided with the Army helicopter on ...
"More and more planes on this busiest runway in the United States is just going to increase the chance of a significant ...
Airline pilots have warned of the potential dangers that helicopters posed in the Washington area before the fatal crash at ...
A passenger jet hit an Army helicopter with three soldiers as the plane got ready to land at Reagan National near Washington, ...
Rep. Troy Nehls told The Post that Federal Aviation Administration officials had known about the “staffing issues” and that ...
The audio indicates that air traffic controllers tried to warn the Army helicopter about a nearby Canadair Regional Jet.
The deadly collision of an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter late Jan. 29 in Washington, D ...
""DCA is one of the most demanding airports in the world. It also has what’s known as ‘helicopter alley’ with hundreds of ...
Investigators recovered the so-called black boxes from the plane, an American Airlines Bombardier jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members, which collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter ...
"It’s bigger than a mountain, that restricted airspace to the east," Rieder said. Only certain pilots are even allowed to land at Reagan, and when Rieder flew there, if something didn't feel right ...
The airspace around Washington, D.C., is congested and complex — a combination aviation experts have long worried could lead ...