Light pollution from Washington and the passenger jet’s dim lights might have contributed to difficulties spotting American Airlines Flight 5342 before the collision on Jan. 29, Army experts said.
Air traffic control managers told the National Transportation Safety Board that F.A.A. leaders rebuffed efforts over the years to address hazardous conditions that played a role in the Jan. 29 crash.
Federal Aviation Administration employees preparing to testify on Thursday, the second day of National Transportation Safety Board hearings on the January collision of an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines plane.
President Trump’s impeachments were mentioned in an exhibit on the American presidency that museum officials said was outdated. A Smithsonian spokeswoman said a future exhibit would include “all impeachments.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
The employees More than half of the agency’s 4,600 Washington employees will be spread across five regional hubs. The agency is also shuttering regional offices of the U.S. Forest Service.
More than five inches fell in some suburbs of the capital. The authorities in Maryland rescued dozens of people, including some who were stranded in their cars.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to bolster ties with Asia to counter Beijing’s power, but President Trump’s tariff threats have nations asking why they should align with Washington.
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