In general, airspace is mixed-use by default. Certain restrictions apply to military corridors and takeoff and landing paths around major airports, but broadly, the skies above the U.S. are open. But ...
"We as a group can never go back to just getting on a plane and trusting that everything will be OK," one relative told Newsweek.
The FAA has removed helicopter routes 4 and 6 from the area around DCA and revised Route 7 to extend west of the airport. These changes are aimed at preventing future mid-air conflicts between ...
The NTSB is urging the FAA to take steps to ensure helicopter traffic is never permitted to cross arrival and departure paths ...
The crash killed 67 people. The release of the reports followed a news conference by NTSB officials who said Federal Aviation Administration procedures that governed the airspace near Reagan ...
Additionally, there were also 85 cases where two aircraft were separated by less than 1,500 feet, with a vertical separation of less than 200 feet, according to the NTSB. Homendy said the FAA ...
The FAA has removed helicopter routes 4 and 6 from the area around DCA and revised Route 7 to extend west of the airport. These changes are aimed at preventing future mid-air conflicts between ...
Two-thirds of the events occurred at night.” On 11 March the NTSB also made “urgent” recommendations to the FAA to address “the potential for midair collisions between traffic on ...
The NTSB said the separation between helicopters and jets in the area was insufficient and posed “an intolerable risk to aviation safety by increasing the chances of a midair collision.” ...