Voice recordings from the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the crash with a commuter plan in Washington, DC, on January 29 ...

Investigators say the crew of the helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines jet near Washington D.C.’s Ronald ...

Concerns that a deadly collision could occur at Reagan National Airport had long been building. But attempts to draw attention to potentially dangerous conditions sometimes went unheeded.

Using radio traffic, flight data and leaked footage of an air traffic control radar screen, we examine what was happening in the moments before the midair collision near Reagan National Airport that ...

Pilots had confirmed their approach to air traffic controllers at the airport tower at 8:42 p.m. Moments later, a controller reported high crosswinds on Runway 1 and asked the pilots to shift to ...

A day after the United States witnessed its deadliest aviation disaster in over two decades, a preliminary report from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) suggests the Reagan National Airport ...

staffing at the air traffic control tower was "not normal" at the time of the crash. When aircraft volume goes down, a supervisor can make the decision to combine two controller positions into one ...

FAA data shows that the DCA Air Traffic Control tower needed 28 workers. But in September 2023, there were only 19 certified controllers. Meanwhile, at MSP, the targeted staffing was also 28.

A single controller was handling communications for both helicopters and planes, a task usually divided between two people, says New York Times Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald ...