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Federal investigators have raised concerns of a capacity for another fatal plane crash at Reagan National Airport, after a midair crash earlier this year killed 67.

The National Transportation Safety Board gave an update on their investigation into the reason for the disaster which occurred 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 airplanes.

As part of an initial report released on Tuesday, investigators raised issues of more crashes including helicopters at the airport.

NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy stated: 'We stay concerned about the substantial potential for future mid-air collision at DCA.'

Her issues revolve around Transport Secretary Sean Duffy transferring to limit helicopter traffic around the area, but that is set to cease at the end of the month.

When cops, medical or presidential transport helicopters need to use the area civilian aircrafts are stopped from being in the same location.

Homendy stated the NTSB is now suggesting that the FAA find a 'long-term option' for detours for helicopters when 2 of the airport's runways remain in usage.

Emergency systems react after a traveler 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 speaks to reporters about the 29 January mid-air accident

It was also exposed on Tuesday that there was cautioning check in the lead up to the lethal catastrophe.

Those penetrating the crash went through 944,179 operations between October 2021 and December 2024.

It was uncovered that 15,214 'near-miss events' of planes getting notifies about helicopters remaining in close proximity in between October 2021 and December 2024.

The NTSB also said that there were 85 cases where two aircraft where laterally divided by less than 1,500 feet, and a vertical separation of less than 200 feet.

Homendy included: 'That data from October 2021 through December 2024, (the FAA) could have utilized that info at any time to figure out that we have a pattern here and an issue here, and took a look at that path; that didn't occur, which is why we're doing something about it today. But unfortunately, individuals lost lives, and liked ones are grieving.'

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy knocked these findings at a later interview on Tuesday.

Duffy said: 'I think the concern is when this data comes in how did the FAA not understand. How did they not study the data to say "hello, this is a location, we are having near misses out on and if we do not alter our ways we are gon na lose lives".'

He included: 'That wasn't done, possibly there was a concentrate on something besides security.'

Duffy would later on included when questioned by a reporter about the near misses out on that the data had 'p *** ed him off'.

Pictured: Parts of the wreckage seen being in the Potomac River after Flight 5342 hit an Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, eliminating 67 people

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Investigators think that the helicopter included in the crash might have had incorrect altitude readings in the minutes before the crash.

The most likely took place at an altitude simply under 300 feet, as the aircraft descended towards the chopper, which was above its 200-foot limit for that area.

On Tuesday American Airlines welcomed the report by the NTSB, saying: 'We're grateful for the National Transportation Safety Board's urgent safety suggestions to limit helicopter traffic near DCA and for its comprehensive investigation.

'We will continue to coordinate carefully with PSA Airlines as it complies as an investigative party member.'

The helicopter pilots may have likewise missed out on part of another interaction, when the tower stated the jet was turning towards a different runway, Homendy stated last month.

The helicopter was on a 'check' flight that night where the pilot was going through a yearly test and a test on using night vision safety glasses, Homendy stated.

Investigators think the crew was using night vision safety glasses throughout the flight.

The Army has stated the Black Hawk crew was extremely experienced, and accustomed to the congested skies around the nation ´ s capital.

At the time of the collision, a single air traffic controller was concurrently keeping track of both the helicopter and airplane traffic.

Those jobs are generally dealt with between two individuals from 10am until 9:30 pm, according to an early FAA report seen by The New York Times.

Those tasks are typically handled in between 2 people from 10am up until 9:30 pm, according to the report.

Surveillance video footage drawn from inside the airport caught the moment the two collided in midair

At the time of the accident, a single air traffic controller was all at once keeping track of both the helicopter and aircraft traffic. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is seen here

After 9:30 pm the duties are usually combined and delegated someone as the airport sees less traffic later on in the night.

A manager apparently decided to integrate those responsibilities before the scheduled cutoff time nevertheless, and enabled one air traffic controller to leave work early.

The FAA report stated that staffing configuration 'was not regular for the time of day and volume of traffic'.

Reagan National has been understaffed for numerous years, with just 19 totally licensed controllers as of September 2023 - well listed below the target of 30 - according to the most current Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan submitted to Congress.

The situation appeared to have actually improved given that then, as a source informed CNN the Reagan National control tower was 85 percent staffed with 24 of 28 positions filled.

Chronic understaffing at air traffic control towers is absolutely nothing brand-new, with popular causes consisting of high turnover and spending plan cuts.

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In order to fill the gaps, controllers are regularly asked to work 10-hour days, 6 days a week.

After the release of the report, former Inspector General of the US Department of Transportation Mary Schiavo deemed the findings as 'unusual'.

She stated: 'This NTSB action is highly uncommon. The release of an emergency recommendation requesting the FAA take immediate action, before the completion of the NTSB examination is rare.'

The two airplane had actually clashed in a huge fireball that showed up on dashcams of cars driving on highways that snake around the airport, before plunging into the river.

Less than a month later, on February 17, a Delta traveler aircraft crashed-landed upside down in chaotic scenes at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada.

Miraculously, everybody on board survived after being suspended upside-down by their seat belts for numerous minutes up until they tentatively started evacuating.

The plane had been heading to Toronto from Minneapolis - Saint Paul International Airport with 76 guests and four team members on board.

Some 21 people were required to the hospital for treatment to small injuries, and Delta has actually offered everyone a no-strings $30,000 payment in settlement.

And the aircraft carnage is continuous - on Sunday, yet another jet crash-landed, this time in a car park of a rural Pennsylvania retirement community.

Dramatic video showed the Beechcraft A36TC emerge in flames in the parking area of Brethren Village in Manheim Township. Five individuals were hurried to hospital.

Medics, ambulances, and emergency lorries hurried to the scene in Lancaster County as flames engulfed the airplane and neighboring lorries.

The aircraft took off as arranged on Sunday afternoon, but quickly requested to land back on the tarmac because its door had actually opened.

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