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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.
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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.
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An American Airlines jetliner and a Black Hawk military helicopter collided in midair over the Potomac River, eliminating everybody on board both aircrafts.
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As part of a preliminary report launched on Tuesday, private investigators raised concerns of more crashes including helicopters at the airport.
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NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy said: 'We stay concerned about the substantial potential for future mid-air collision at DCA.'
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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.
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When authorities, medical or governmental transport helicopters need to utilize the space civilian airplanes are stopped from remaining in the exact same area.
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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.
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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
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Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) Jennifer Homendy talks to press reporters about the 29 January mid-air crash
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It was likewise exposed on Tuesday that there was cautioning check in the lead up to the deadly disaster.
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Those probing the crash went through 944,179 operations in between October 2021 and December 2024.
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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.
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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.
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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 \ No newline at end of file