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NTSB questions flight training procedures during hearings over January plane crash
The NTSB continued its hearings Thursday into the deadly air collision between a military aircraft and a passenger jet.
Worries over military chopper routes, FAA staffing levels emerge as factors in midair crash inquiry
The National Transportation Safety Board enters a second day of public hearings Thursday on the January midair collision ...
NTSB hearing reveals air traffic controllers should have warned passenger plane about helicopter before collision, but didn’t
The National Transportation Safety Board will question witnesses Thursday about air traffic control training, a key part of ...
'Make it work mentality' culture at DC airport questioned after fatal crash
As hearings unfold into the fatal January plane-helicopter collision near D.C., investigators say the FAA ignored clear ...
Tower controller saw collision coming, NTSB documents reveal
The aircrafts crashed into the Potomac River and 67 people were killed, with no survivors.The NTSB originally planned to hold ...
‘We just make it work’: Strained air traffic culture at Reagan National Airport exposed by NTSB crash inquiry
Federal investigators investigating the deadly midair collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport described a strained, high-stress air traffic culture where controllers relied on experience, thin ...
5 new details from hearing on DC crash that killed 67
New details are emerging about the deadly collision between an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter in January ...
Plane Crash Hearing Witness Called Out for Allegedly 'Elbowing FAA Employee Mid-Sentence': ‘Not Gonna Put Up with That’
As the investigative hearing continues into the deadly mid-air crash between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines ...
NTSB questions controller's failure to alert jet before January crash in Washington, DC
The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday questioned the failure of an air traffic controller to issue a warning about a potential collision in the moments before a crash between an Army ...