THE deadly American Airlines crash follows a flurry of near-misses and smashes at Washington DC’s Ronald Reagan National Airport – including a 1982 crash that killed 78 people.
Reagan airport was at the center of a fierce safety debate last year. Lawmakers approved more flights anyway - ‘We’ve been pretty plain about our [safety] concerns, but it isn’t a good time to speculate right now,
The FAA report revealed that a single controller was responsible for both managing helicopters in the airport's vicinity and directing arriving and departing planes.
Staffing levels at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport were 'not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,' according to a preliminary report
The crash near Reagan National Airport has renewed questions about the airport's flight load, considering its small size, among other issues.
American Eagle Flight 5342 en route from Wichita, Kansas (ICT), to Washington, D.C. (DCA) was involved in an accident at DCA. President Donald Trump , while addressing the media from White house, clarified that there are no survivors.
David Freeman caught a flight to International Airport on Thursday from Reagan National Airport after a American Airlines jet collided with a military helicopter over the Potomac River on Wednesday night.
Leaders across the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia region, as well as federal lawmakers, are reacting to the tragic American Airlines plane crash near DCA.
A passenger jet collided with an Army helicopter while approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, DC. All 67 persons were killed.
A preliminary report by the Federal Aviation Administration found that staffing at the Ronald Reagan Airport air traffic control tower was “not normal” at the time of the deadly collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet.
Even as a massive effort is underway to recover the bodies of those killed in that mid-air disaster near Reagan National Airport Wednesday night plunging dozens into the icy waters of the Potomac River,