D.C. Mayor Addresses Congestion at Reagan National Airport

There has been reported that there was a controller that was working both local traffic and helicopter traffic. And that person would have been talking to the local traffic — being arriving, departing — and she would have been talking both to the American pilot and the helicopter,

Elwell said

This airport handles a lot of people safely from around the nation ... around the world, and we want that to continue to happen,

Bowser said

Well, I think [that's] certainly a conversation to be had,

Bowser told CNBC, according to The Hill

Of course, we've added technology to it,

he said

I flew out of there for 15 years with the airlines, so I'm very familiar with the procedures,

he said