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Anyone who suggests that we can’t have military helicopters flying in Washington, D.C., doesn’t understand national security and the threats we confront and what is necessary to defend our citizens,
I was getting ready to take possible evasive action because it was getting uncomfortable,
You might think there is some irreducible risk level we can’t get below,
Aviation safety continues to get better,
says Arnold Barnett, MIT professor and co-author of the research Upon review of the approach path and other information, we estimate we came within 300 ft. or less of what turned out to be a helicopter lifting off of the hospital,
We’re really not doing things differently. We do all we can to promote safety but, at the end of the day, what we do is dangerous,
It would have been very difficult to see and avoid,
Helicopter pilots can’t be just constantly leaning forward or backward, because you could become disoriented,
We look at the human, the machine and the environment,
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy told reporters Thursday You can be sure that the air traffic control communications are going to be scrutinized by the NTSB, that controller is going to be interviewed, and the radar data is going to be looked at by NTSB,
he told the “TODAY” show on Thursday This was not unusual with a military aircraft flying over the river and aircraft landing at DCA,
Duffy said, referring to the airport Everything, unfortunately, lined up for this accident to happen,
said Kenneth Byrnes, a pilot and chairman of the flight training department at Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University Everything was standard in the lead-up to the crash,
Reagan is just so saturated with lights. It’s very easy to lose sight of an airplane in that flood of lights,
We've had a loss of personnel during the pandemic, pilots, air traffic controllers, technicians across the board,
We have redundant systems in our country—automation systems as well as protocols and training that all work together to give us the transportation system that we have today and the safety record that we've had over all these years,
says Hassan Shahidi, president and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation For some jobs, we need the highest level of genius,
Aviation has come a long way in a sense of technology and a sense of pilot training and controller training. That's not to say it couldn't get better,
Commercial aviation in the U.S. hasn't had a major accident since 2009. So you're talking about almost two decades of safe flying, considering all the number of flights that are going on out there. So, it's still very safe to travel, like I said, the major U. S. carriers do have a great safety record,
There is probably, maybe not every day, but probably on average, every other day, a plane crash somewhere in the United States,
Jim Brauchle, an aviation attorney for Motley Rice, told Newsweek via video chat on Thursday ... adding that
