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The National Security Committee has revealed that helicopter traffic from Ronald Reagan International Airport represented “Unbearable risk to Aviation security By increasing the chance of a mid-air collision “in front of the collision last month that resulted in death Over 60 people.
“It’s stronger than supervision,” he said NTSB Chairman Jennifer Homondy at a press conference in ArlingtonVirginia, where is DCA Airport, Tuesday, at the same time announcing the Preliminary Agency Report in incident.
Sixty-seven people were killed on 29. January, when colliding with black Hawk from the US Army American Airlines Regional jet air across the Potomac in the Washington DC American Airlines flight 5342 was on his descent from Wichita, Kansas, with 64 people on board, as three soldiers on the helicopter participated in training.
The services of services are believed to travel above their 200 feet assigned airs and carrying night vision glasses that could obscure their vision.
Black Helicopters for the hawk often flew on the road 4, and the respiratory path that stretches from walking to Wilson Bridge in Washington DC, before the US Transportation Department has restricted after collision by 31. mart.
The restriction does not apply to helicopters in which the airspace for rescue medical support, active law enforcement, air defense and presidential transport, but operations are prohibited outside of these exemptions.
“As that deadline is closer, we stayed worried about the significant potential for the future Court of the Central Air on DCA, which is why we recommend a permanent solution today,” Homony said. “We believe that the critical security issue must be resolved without delay.”
Homondy called for the transport department in the bar of helicopter operations along the route when for disposing and coming in the preparations and arrivals, except for the establishment of an alternative route to facilitate military and implementation implementation.
The Agency does not issue a recommendation for an alternative route, instead to request a federal aviation administration to determine the appropriate respiratory passenger.
Sean Duffy has agreed to implement recommendations after the homonday remark.
Through the initial analysis of the data, NTSB investigators found airport officials of a single warning of traffic collision per month since 2011. until 2024. years due to helicopters. Over half of these instances showed that helicopters could be above the limitations of 200 feet. Two thirds of these incidents happened at night.
Moreover, significant percentage of narrow calls involving helicopters that fly along with route 4 and the planes land on the runway 33, the same landing bar that used American Airlines.
In addition, from the 20th. October to 20. December, there were 15,214 cases of close events close to the proximity between commercial airplanes and helicopters where there was a lateral distance of the less than one nautical mile and the vertical separation of less than 400 feet. The airport brings down 944,116 of the flights at the time.
In the last two and a half years, there were 85 close to misses within 200 feet of vertical separation.
The existing distance of separation between helicopter traffic operating on routes and planes that flock onto runways are not enough, we say Homondy.
Responding to a certain question regarding the feelings of a collision, Homondy said, “It makes me angry, but that makes me feel incredibly devastated for families who are losing loved ones.” Several collision victims were children and their parents returning to the DC area from the sliding competition.
The Chair noted that NTSB data used to compile their report extracted from the security of the security reporting that FAA had access.
“They could use that data at any time to determine that we have a trend and a problem here and looked at that route. That didn’t happen,” she said.
Independent He sent an email to FAA for comment.
Speaking on a separate news, Sean Duffy secretary expressed anger on the FAI, the agency under his control.
“How did Faa know?” Duffy questioned, raised his voice. “As they did not study the data to say,” Hey, this is a hot dot. We have near misses, and if we don’t change our way, we’ll lose our lives. “It’s not done. Perhaps there was a focus on something other than security.”
Duffy said that the transport ward would propose an alternative path for helicopters soon. The military seemed to approve the changes, Duffy said, after the conversation that he had with the Secretary of the defense of Pete Hegseth earlier on Tuesday.
Equipment for law enforcement and the presidential missions will remain in force, but Mary Schiavo, the air lawyer and former general inspectors on transmission, worries that could lead to slippery slope.
According to her opinion, the FAA, which refers to the “agency of the tombstone” due to its history of issuing reactive measures, is careless in not taking action before the collision. It predicts that agency and the US military will face a litigation in the near future that have brought families of victims.
“These data are stunning,” Schiavo said Independent. “DCA was in a very special, unsafe position.”
Daffy did not immediately adopt NTSB recommendations, DCA would remain “the most dangerous airport in America,” she said.
Schiavo praised the rare action of Homony in the issuance of emergency guidelines, noticing that she rarely saw the chairman as angry as she appeared on Tuesday.
“I think she wanted to save people’s lives,” Schiavo said. “Because if this action didn’t happen, the other will die.”
The DCA tragedy marked the first in a series of U.S. aircraft disasters at the beginning of the year. Two days after the incident, Medevac crashed in the residential and commercial part of Philadelphia, killing six people on board, including the 11-year valentine of Guzmán Murillo and her mother, Lizeth Murillo Osuna, 31.
The couple just left Shriners Philadelphia’s Children’s Hospital, where Valentina spent five months receiving treatment for life saving. The plane, on the way to Tijuan International Airport in Mexico with a planned filling stop in Missouri, crashed after a minute in the air.
NTSB issued its preliminary report on Filadelphia Filling Report last week, but did not state what could cause an incident.
In another large aircraft, the Delta plane, Minnesotta, the fall in the meeting at Toronto Pearson International Airport with 80 people on board, causing the aircraft to turn upside down.
Commenting the safety of the air trip, Homondy said he had just flew out of DCA Airport with his daughter.
“Aviation is incredibly safe,” Homondy continued. “DCA is where I always fly. I say that your greatest risk in your personal vehicle when you go to and from the airport. Aviation is safe. However, there are safe issues and areas in which we need to improve.”