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<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>An American Airlines jetliner and a Black Hawk military helicopter collided in midair over the Potomac River, eliminating everybody on board both aircrafts.<br>
<br>As part of a preliminary report launched on Tuesday, private investigators raised concerns of more crashes including helicopters at the airport.<br>
<br>NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy said: 'We stay concerned about the substantial potential for future mid-air collision at DCA.'<br>
<br>Her issues revolve around Transport Secretary Sean Duffy moving to limit helicopter [traffic](https://29sixservices.in/attendance-leave-management/) around the location, but that is set to cease at the end of the month.<br>
<br>When authorities, medical or governmental transport helicopters need to utilize the space civilian airplanes are stopped from remaining in the exact same area.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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<br>
<br>Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) Jennifer Homendy talks to press reporters about the 29 January mid-air crash<br>
<br>It was likewise exposed on Tuesday that there was cautioning check in the lead up to the deadly disaster.<br>
<br>Those probing the crash went through 944,179 operations in between October 2021 and December 2024.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>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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