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On the night of the collision, staffing at the tower was "not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic," according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety report. [33] A single controller handled helicopters in and around the airport and instructed landing and departing planes at the time of the crash.
Department of Transportation, Special Collections - archived accident reports of the Civil Aeronautics Board; Recent aviation accidents investigated by the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) Older aviation accidents investigated by the NTSB; Aviation studies conducted by the NTSB; Aviation statistical Reports, by the NTSB
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Data retrieved from an investigation into a collision last week between an American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter over the Potomac River in ...
The events prompted a review by the Federal Aviation Administration, [2] announced by acting administrator Billy Nolen on February 28, 2023. [3] The review started on March 15. [4] For the first time in 14 years, U.S. aviation industry leaders met the same day at a safety summit. [4]
Tim Loranger, an aviation attorney and former U.S. Marine Corps aircraft mechanic, said the publicly available data suggests the passenger jet was “exactly where it was supposed to be, at the ...
This was the worst aviation accident in the Atlantic Ocean at the time and remains the worst ever involving the Latécoère 631. August 29 – Northwest Airlines Flight 421, a Martin 2–0–2, crashed near Winona, Minnesota, due to structural failure of a wing, killing all 37 on board in the worst ever accident involving the Martin 2–0–2 ...
Federal accident investigators are pushing to retrofit current aircraft with better cockpit voice recorders, citing the loss of evidence during last month's blowout of a door panel on a jetliner ...