Federal crash investigators have said a helicopter route used by an Army Black Hawk for training when it crashed midair with a passenger aircraft over Washington, D.C., in late January, killing all ...
The agency says the approved helicopter route is too close to the approach to the runway where an American Eagle plane was attempting to land in January.
The transportation secretary’s decision came after the National Transportation Safety Board cited a long history of near ...
The NTSB issued its preliminary report on the midair collision between a passenger plane and helicopter over Washington, D.C.
Nearby, a U.S. Army Black Hawk with three soldiers on board was practicing ... Credit: AP/Jose Luis Magana Investigators ...
More than a month after an American Airlines plane and a Black Hawk helicopter collided near Reagan National Airport (DCA), ...
The NTSB called its recommendation urgent and said it results from the investigation of a collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter on Jan. 29.
Two-thirds of those encounters occurred at night, the NTSB found ... from the tower telling the helicopter to “pass behind” the regional jet. But the Black Hawk’s cockpit voice recorder ...