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The NTSB is an independent, bipartisan board — 58 years as the gold standard. Our job is to find the facts, but more importantly, our job is to make sure this tragedy doesn't happen again, regardless of what anyone may be saying,
If we hired 2,000 people today, in two, three years from now, we'd see only about 1,000 of them become a certified air traffic controller,
The COVID-19 pandemic has had substantial impact on the aviation industry and the FAA,
They do need to be able to understand the environment, the air traffic, the routes, to ensure the safe travel of our senior leaders throughout our government,
We have been short-staffed for too many years and it's creating so many unsafe situations. The FAA has created an unsafe environment to work and for the flying public. The controllers' mental health is deteriorating."
In a report to NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System, one controller in Southern California wrote last year The Black Hawk helicopter had a transponder, so it was appearing on radar. It did not have technology called ADS-B, which is technology that pings the location of an aircraft, and it does so using GPS rather than radar,
We know that air traffic control confirmed with the helicopter crew that they had visual contact with the plane. Controllers then instructed the helicopter to move behind the plane,
Flight 5342 was initially scheduled to land on Runway 1 at Reagan but was redirected to Runway 33, ... Meanwhile, the helicopter was traveling along Route 1 before being shifted to Route 4.
They had to circle back around because there was a helicopter in the flight path,
passenger Richard Hart told the newspaper of his experience on the flight I understand some people have associated me with the crash in D.C., and that is false,
Jo Ellis, a Black Hawk pilot with the Virginia Army National Guard, said in the Facebook video Chris’ kindness and compassion extended to everyone, whether you were a family member, friend, or one of the many strangers he connected with during his outdoor adventures,
his family said in a statement The treatment ran its course. She was ready to go home, and we were contracted to bring her back home to Mexico,
This tragic accident is definitely going to put a spotlight on the national air traffic system and may finally result in a proper funding level so the system can be upgraded and maintained,
Today’s decision will immediately help secure the airspace near Reagan Airport, ensuring the safety of airplane and helicopter traffic."
He wrote on social media platform X We saw no exterior damage that would indicate it was compromised at this time, so we have a high level of confidence we’ll have a full extraction,
We’re looking at altitude. The president was clear about that … someone was at the wrong altitude,
It takes a long time to train an air traffic controller,
Mary Schiavo, a former Department of Transportation inspector general, told CNN We are already on forced 6-day work weeks working overtime every week,
another controller in Northern California wrote The Potomac is, is massive, you know, from where they are, it goes hundreds of miles all the way out to the Chesapeake Bay,
Once that is completed, then recovering the two aircraft and then also finding as much of the debris from the collision that they can in the river,
