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NTSB questions flight training procedures during hearings over January plane crash
The NTSB continued its hearings Thursday into the deadly air collision between a military aircraft and a passenger jet.
NTSB hearing reveals air traffic controllers should have warned passenger plane about helicopter before collision, but didn’t
The National Transportation Safety Board will question witnesses Thursday about air traffic control training, a key part of ...
Night vision goggles may have hampered helicopter pilots before crash with jet, experts tell NTSB
Two previous days of testimony underscored a number of factors that likely contributed to the collision that left all 67 ...
NTSB Questions Controller's Failure to Alert Jet Before January Crash in Washington, DC
FILE PHOTO: A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American ...
Less than a second before hitting a passenger jet, helicopter instructor told pilot to change course, NTSB hearing reveals
The first of the National Transportation Safety Board’s three days of investigative hearings is underway to help determine ...
‘Least safe it has ever been’: NTSB witness says of DCA airspace
A witness criticized the safety of Ronald Reagan National Airport’s airspace since a mid-air crash in January during day two ...
‘We just make it work’: Strained air traffic culture at Reagan National Airport exposed by NTSB crash inquiry
Federal investigators investigating the deadly midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport described a ...