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NTSB questions flight training procedures during hearings over January plane crash

The NTSB continued its hearings Thursday into the deadly air collision between a military aircraft and a passenger jet.

NTSB Questions Controller's Failure to Alert Jet Before January Crash in Washington, DC

FILE PHOTO: A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American ...

NTSB hearing reveals air traffic controllers should have warned passenger plane about helicopter before collision, but didn’t

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

NTSB finds Army chopper in fatal midair crash with plane was above altitude limit

The details came out of the first day of National Transportation Safety Board hearings in Washington, where investigators aim ...

NTSB launches hearings on deadly collision between helicopter and passenger plane

Investigators have found that a helicopter involved in a deadly crash with a passenger plane over Washington was flying above ...

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 ...

NTSB criticizes FAA for failing to act before fatal Army helicopter collision

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board sharply criticized U.S. officials for failing to act before the January ...

NTSB launches 3-day investigative hearing on deadly DC plane crash

The National Transportation Safety Board is launching a three-day investigation hearing on the D.C. plane crash that left 67 ...

Army helicopter that crashed with commercial plane in DC was flying above altitude limit: NTSB

The Army helicopter that collided with a plane over D.C. in January had incorrect altitude readings, contributing to the ...