NTSB Report on Deadly Midair Collision DCA

Saturday, March 15, 2025

The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday recommended that helicopter traffic be banned from a four-mile stretch over the Potomac River when flights are landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy, at a briefing Tuesday, said the setup at the airport poses an "intolerable risk" to safety.

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BREAKING: FAA says it is permanently restricting helicopter flights near the Washington airport where a midair collision killed 67 people.

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-- The Associated Press (@apnews.com) March 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM

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"I guess the helicopter was high, and we will point out exactly what happened," he said. "But the odds even if you had nothing, nobody, the odds of that happening are extremely small. Did you ever go to a driving range in golf and hit hundreds of balls, thousands of hours. I've never seen a ball hit another ball. You never see them hit and balls going up all over the place. That is amazing that could happen."

~ President Plane Crash ~

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-11 10:39 PM | Reply

Exactly what I was saying.

But for some reason Gaslighter and Dialagain argued they had to hear cockpit recordings.

Lewzers, the both of them.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-11 10:55 PM | Reply

IAMRUNT is the ------- who said a police helicopter collided with the airliner. What a moron.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-11 11:02 PM | Reply

What a moron.

Another moron said it was DEI cuz "Common sense".

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-11 11:14 PM | Reply

Basics from the NSBC presser:

- NTSB recommends permanently shutting down that helicopter route wile specific DCA runways are in use, and finding an alternate route.

- They release the info that they have confirmed, and do not release anything that has not been confirmed.

- They have not yet identified a cause of the incident

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-11 11:22 PM | Reply

NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy also seemed to be kissing Transport Secretary whoverheis's taint a lot. I wonder who called her?

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-11 11:44 PM | Reply

...NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy...

Phhhht, what does she know? Must be a DEI hire as we all know women can't drive let alone fly a helicopter. She should be at home pregnant and making me a sandwich.

#7 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-03-13 07:33 AM | Reply

Commercial passenger airlines are authorized to make a total of 864 landings and departures from Reagan National from 6 a.m. to midnight each day, or 48 an hour, according to the airport's website. Of those, 64 have been added by Congress since 2000. Local airport authorities have objected to the increases.
The crowded airspace around Washington drew attention last year when Congress debated an aviation safety bill that allowed 10 more flights a day at Reagan National, despite strong objections from Virginia's Democratic senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner.

Let those numbers sink in and imagine how crazy it is in that very confined airspace. It has always been about Members of Congress voting to get themselves home quickly on the weekends.

#8 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2025-03-15 03:10 PM | Reply

Let those numbers sink in and imagine how crazy it is in that very confined airspace.

Also, when jets started using that airport in 1966 non-stop flights were limited to 650 miles. By the 80s, Congress had increased that limit to 1250 miles. Since then, Congress has exempted 10 more cities, such as LA, Las Vegas, and San Juan.

#9 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-15 03:42 PM | Reply

They release the info that they have confirmed, and do not release anything that has not been confirmed.

Unlike Trumpy and the DOGE douches who refuse to be transparent and release info they HAVE confirmed and they gleefully release anything and everything that has NOT been confirmed.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-16 12:43 PM | Reply