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After D.C. Plane Crash, Air Traffic Controllers Were Not Tested for Alcohol

The F.A.A. has since been training on-call specialists to be snappier about administering alcohol and drug tests after a serious incident, an official said.

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Jennifer Homendy, the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, questions witnesses at a hearing on the midair collision.
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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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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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