A timeline of last week's air disaster in Washington, the deadliest in the US since 2001
It has been nearly a week since a commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter collided in midair near Washington’s Ronald ...
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The crash landing of Flight 534
Flight 532 landed at Cheddi Jagan International Airport in Guyana, overshot the runway, punched through the perimeter fence, ...
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Former air traffic controller at MKE shares insight into D.C. crash, questions key tower decision
A former air traffic controller believes decisions made inside the tower last week at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport contributed to a mid-air collision that killed 67 people.Jordan ...
Plane crash: NTSB says Army helicopter flying at 300 feet at time of collision
The National Transportation Safety Administration says the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines ...
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NTSB says Army helicopter flying at 300 feet at time of collision, where 200 feet is the limit
The permitted flight ceiling for helicopters near Reagan Airport is 200 feet, which is meant to keep military and law ...
Why Do Pilots Say 'Mayday' In An Emergency? The History Behind The Term
Sure, pilots could have used SOS, but the consonants could have easily been mistaken for some other similarly sounding ...
Approach for Reagan National’s Runway 33 is within feet of helicopter corridor
Pilots who agree initiate a swooping turn that on final approach brings them north west and low across the river — the path ...
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America’s Air-Traffic Control System: An International Disgrace
The basic problem, which reformers have been trying to remedy since the Clinton administration, is that the system is operated by a cumbersome federal bureaucracy—the same bureaucracy that’s also ...
All 67 victims of the aircraft collision over the Potomac River have been recovered
WASHINGTON (7News) — All 67 victims from the midair collision near Reagan National Airport have been recovered, according to ...
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Early Engagement Key In Aircraft Management Relationships: CJI Panel
Early Engagement Key In Aircraft Management Relationships: CJI Panel is published in The Weekly of Business Aviation, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with ...
The Minor Events That May Have Sparked a Major Aviation Tragedy
For 25 years, I worked in civilian aerospace at Rolls Royce and Airbus. Then, I taught college students to dispassionately ...
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US Marine Corps plans mechanical improvements to address Osprey safety concerns
Following a tumultuous multi-year period of serious safety incidents for the iconic Bell-Boeing tiltrotor, the US Marine ...