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The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That’s not really too complicated to understand, is it???”
Meanwhile, Trump continued to front-run the crash investigation, posting on his TruthSocial We’re looking at altitude. The president was clear about that … someone was at the wrong altitude,
That investigation is ongoing.”
Asked whether the controller handling incoming traffic at the airport that night was hired or not fired based on their race, Leavitt said It takes a long time to train an air traffic controller,
Mary Schiavo, a former Department of Transportation inspector general, told CNN We have been short staffed for too many years and it’s creating so many unsafe situations,
one controller in Southern California wrote last year, recounting how a small aircraft requesting assistance could not be helped due to workload issues We are already on forced 6-day work weeks working overtime every week,
another controller in Northern California wrote Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has 25 Certified Professional Controllers and three Certified Professional Controllers in Training (CPC-ITs). CPC-ITs were previously fully certified at other facilities. The tower is authorized to have 28 controllers,
and FAA spokesperson said Today's decision will immediately help secure the airspace near Reagan Airport, ensuring the safety of airplane and helicopter traffic, ... The American people deserve full confidence in our aviation system and today's action is a significant step towards restoring that trust."
Duffy said in a post on X This one was transitioning from track one to four as part of their normal procedure,
I am in the process of developing an initial plan to fix the @FAANews. I hope to put it out very shortly,
Duffy said on X on Thursday You need to train as you fight, you need to rehearse in ways that would reflect a real world scenario,
We are looking at altitude... someone was at the wrong altitude. The investigation will help us understand that – was the Black Hawk too high? Was it on course? Right now we don’t quite know,
What I've heard from the audio is that they called out to [air traffic control]. The helicopter said that he had the aircraft in sight,
Having flown at night, having tried to look and see traffic, I think most people would say, ‘Oh, how hard is it to miss an airliner,’ right? You should be able to see that. But it's a lot more difficult than people would expect,
It is well known that the San Francisco Bay Area has a high cost of living, and federal agencies need to account for regional differences when evaluating how to establish contracts for critical services. I am pleased to learn that contract negotiations have moved in a positive direction and a resolution is forthcoming."
Kevin Mullin told NBC Bay Area Pilots remain well-trained in non-towered airport procedures. Additionally, the surrounding airspace remains under the direct oversight of the FAA's Northern California Terminal Radar Approach Control."
San Carlos airport spokesperson Davi Howard said As a contingency, RVA is preparing to bring in controllers from other towers across the country to prevent an ATC-Zero (unstaffed tower) situation on Saturday,
There’s so many places they could have been doing training. Why did they have to do it at the end of the runways of DCA?”
Johnson continued, referring to the airport code of Reagan National airport As we have said countless times before, DCA’s runway is already the busiest in the country,
Virginia US senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and Maryland’s senator Chris Van Hollen and then senator Ben Cardin, all Democrats, said in a joint statement months before the law was passed The military tend to have a bit of a law-unto-themselves approach,
