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Key Takeaways From the D.C. Plane Crash Hearing

After hours of testimony and thousands of pages of new documents, here’s what emerged in the first day of a marathon National Transportation Safety Board hearing.

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The N.T.S.B held a fact-finding hearing on Wednesday on the Jan. 29 crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
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N.T.S.B. Details Evidence in Fatal Crash at Reagan National Airport

Flight instruments probably led the Black Hawk crew to believe the helicopter was lower than it actually was before the collision with a commercial airplane on Jan. 29.

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Law enforcement and rescue teams searched the Potomac River next to the wreckage of an American Airlines plane that crashed into a helicopter near Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Va., in January.
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Federal Investigators Set to Begin Hearings on D.C. Plane Crash

The National Transportation Safety Board is also expected to release a trove of documents related to the fatal midair collision in January between an Army helicopter and a regional jet at Reagan National Airport.

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Wreckage from a collision between an American Airline jet and an Army Black Hawk seen near the Reagan National Airport in January.
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Republicans Unveil Aviation Safety Bill Before D.C. Crash Hearings

The legislation, led by Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican chairman of a panel that oversees air travel, has a number of high-profile supporters — but no Democrats, yet.

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An American Airlines flight collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter over Reagan National Airport in January.
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To Staff Trump’s Immigration Crackdown, ICE Entices Its Retirees

The administration is offering financial incentives to lure back recently departed immigration officers as it works to fill 10,000 job openings.

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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer at the agency’s Delaney Hall facility in Newark, N.J., in June.
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