A crane offloads wreckage from a salvage vessel onto a flatbed truck in Arlington, Va., on Feb. 5, 2025, a week after a midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Ben Curtis/AP Photo
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Jan. 27 revealed the probable cause of last year’s deadly midair collision over Washington’s Potomac River, citing the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) decision to place a helicopter route close to an airplane runway approach path and several other “systemic failures” at the agency.
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