One air traffic controller was doing work normally assigned to two people in the tower when the collision happened, according ...

An airplane collided with a helicopter while trying to land at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday ...

Leesburg joins Dulles International ... and forth with Manassas Regional Airport — in Virginia among regional airports. A permanent air traffic control tower — as opposed to the existing, ...

As the American Eagle Flight 5342, a CRJ jet, approached the helicopter, the tower controller asked the helicopter pilot if he had the CRJ in sight. The helicopter pilot cannot be heard responding to ...

Over the last two years, lawmakers from the D.C. area fought back against an intense lobbying campaign to allow additional ...

Stephen Myers, an American Airlines Charlotte Hub Control Center coordinator ... an independent airport authority that oversees Reagan National and Washington Dulles International Airport.

Last week’s deadly midair collision between an American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport ... new traffic control tower, which ...

A commercial passenger plane bound for Reagan National Airport ... control about landing on Runway 1. Controllers ask the ...

A preliminary internal FAA report on the collision obtained by The New York Times shows the airport's air traffic control tower was understaffed ... Reagan National and Dulles International ...