Federal investigators have actually raised issues of a capacity for another fatal plane crash at Reagan National Airport, after a midair accident earlier this year killed 67.
The National Transportation Safety Board provided an upgrade on their investigation into the reason for the catastrophe which took place on January 29 in Washington.
An American Airlines jetliner and a Black Hawk military helicopter collided in midair over the Potomac River, eliminating everybody on board both aircrafts.
As part of a preliminary report launched on Tuesday, private investigators raised concerns of more crashes including helicopters at the airport.
NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy said: 'We stay concerned about the substantial potential for future mid-air collision at DCA.'
Her issues revolve around Transport Secretary Sean Duffy moving to limit helicopter traffic around the location, but that is set to cease at the end of the month.
When authorities, medical or governmental transport helicopters need to utilize the space civilian airplanes are stopped from remaining in the exact same area.
Homendy said the NTSB is now advising that the FAA find a 'irreversible option' for alternate paths for helicopters when two of the airport's runways are in use.
Emergency units respond after a passenger aircraft hit a helicopter in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia
Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) Jennifer Homendy talks to press reporters about the 29 January mid-air crash
It was likewise exposed on Tuesday that there was cautioning check in the lead up to the deadly disaster.
Those probing the crash went through 944,179 operations in between October 2021 and December 2024.
It was uncovered that 15,214 'near-miss events' of aircrafts getting signals about helicopters being in close distance between October 2021 and December 2024.
The NTSB also stated that there were 85 cases where two airplane where laterally divided by less than 1,500 feet, and a vertical separation of less than 200 feet.
Homendy added: 'That data from October 2021 through December 2024, (the FAA) could have used that information any time to determine that we have a pattern here and an issue here, and looked at that route
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