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A congressional hearing Thursday reinforced the idea that the January midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft...
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Air traffic controllers “issued corrective instructions to both aircraft,” according to the FAA, which intends to investigate.
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But McGuinness and dozens more, including P.O. Seth Kowsky, have now seen that kind of disaster not once, but twice in the last 12 months — the D.C. collision in the Potomac and the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge last March.
A tragedy — on Jan. 29, 2025 when an American Airlines flight and an Army Blackhawk helicopter collided midair over the Potomac River — taking 67 souls with it.
Testifying for the first time in front of the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation, acting Federal Aviation Administrator Chris Rocheleau admitted that "something was missed."
A driver who plunged their vehicle into the Potomac River Tuesday evening made it safely out of the water with some help from good Samaritans.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said he learned that the Secret Service and U.S. Navy triggered a rash of collision alarms in planes around Reagan Airport on March 1 while testing anti-drone technology that used a similar frequency to the one used by planes' warning systems. Cruz said that happened despite a warning from the FAA against doing it.
The first day of competition at the 2025 world figure skating championships at TD Garden also featured a poignant tribute.
FAA acting head Chris Rocheleau said that "clearly something was missed" by the agency before the fatal Potomac River midair collision.
TV series Air Crash Investigation tonight examines how two planes collided in the skies leaving 52 children dead. The grief and devastation resulted in a brutal murder
Figure skating’s world championships are underway this week in Boston, a city that carries visceral memories of the sport’s improbable twin disasters.
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The head of the agency investigating the deadly midair collision that killed 67 said Wednesday that someone should have spotted the alarming number of near misses in the skies over the nation’s capital beforehand and reviewing the data now could prevent future crashes.
Team USA skater Maxim Naumov is opening up on losing both of his parents in the devastating plane crash over the Potomac River in January.