The National Transportation Safety Board made an urgent call on Tuesday to permanently restrict helicopter flights in certain areas across the National Airport of Ronald Reagan Washington after the fatal collision of an airlines in January and a helicopter of the military Black Hawk through January.
The existing separation between helicopter near the airport and the incoming aircraft on considered one of the 33 landways is “an unbearable risk of the safety of aviation by increasing the likelihood of a midair collision at DCA,” said Jennifer Homendy in a press conference.
She said that the agency, which is chargeable for the accident investigation, recommends that the Federal Aviation Administration “permanently” prohibit helicopter operation on a certain route at certain times when two of the airports are used.
The NTSB also really useful an alternate route for helicopters when parts of the airspace are closed, in order that air traffic managers will not be overloaded because they “increase the risk”.
The twenty ninth January Midair Collision of 1 American airlines The regional jet with the black helicopter of the military killed all 64 people on the plane and the three crew members on the helicopter. The plane was only just a few moments from landing on the airport.
After the crash, the FAA limited helicopter traffic across the airport. The airspace is overloaded with business flights and quite a lot of military and VIP helicopter traffic within the region.
After the NTSB press conference on Tuesday, the transport secretary Sean Duffy said that the agency accepted the recommendations of the safety committee.
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