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Air traffic controllers required to ‘make it work’ dealing with stream of planes before deadly crash, NTSB hearing uncovers

The National Transportation Safety Board will question witnesses Thursday about air traffic control training, a key part of ...

'Just make it work': NTSB investigates air traffic control culture after deadly collision

The National Transportation Safety Board is examining the air traffic control practices at Reagan National Airport following ...

WATCH LIVE: NTSB probes safety of air traffic control in DC airspace in Flight 5342 hearing

The National Transportation Safety Board began its second day of investigative hearings into the fatal crash of American ...

‘Least safe it has ever been,’ witness says of Reagan airspace at NTSB hearing

A witness criticized the safety of the airspace around Ronald Reagan National Airport since a mid-air crash in January, as ...
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Airspace not safe around Reagan National Airport, witness tells NTSB

"Absolutely, it's safe to fly in," Nick Fuller, the acting deputy chief operations officer for the FAA, told the NTSB. "The ...

NTSB holds hearings on January's deadly mid-air collision near Reagan National Airport

In Washington on Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board held the first of three days of hearings into a deadly ...

‘We just make it work’: Strained air traffic culture at Reagan National Airport exposed by NTSB crash inquiry

Federal investigators investigating the deadly midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport described a ...

Less than a second before hitting a passenger jet, helicopter instructor told pilot to change course, NTSB hearing reveals

The first of the National Transportation Safety Board’s three days of investigative hearings is underway to help determine ...