In May, the FAA barred the Army from helicopter flights around the Pentagon after a May 1 close call that forced two civilian planes to abort landings. The FAA this week said the

Safety investigators probing January’s midair collision between an American Airlines Group Inc. regional jet and a US Army Black Hawk near Washington found a key instrument on the helicopter was displaying inaccurate altitude data that could have led the pilots to think they were flying lower than they actually were.