NTSB listening to on DC midair collision that killed 67
A daylong listening to on Tuesday ought to clarify what elements performed the largest position in inflicting final January’s midair collision close to Washington, D.C., that killed 67 individuals, and the Nationwide Transportation Security Board will advocate what must be performed to forestall related tragedies.Video above: Households Search Reforms after DC Midair CrashEveryone aboard an American Airways jet flying from Wichita, Kansas, and an Military Black Hawk helicopter died when the 2 plane bumped into one another and plummeted into the icy Potomac River on Jan. 29, 2025. It was the deadliest airplane crash on U.S. soil since 2001.The Federal Aviation Administration made a lot of adjustments shortly after the crash to make sure that helicopters and planes not share the identical crowded airspace across the nation’s capital, and final week it made these adjustments everlasting. However the NTSB will advocate extra motion, and the households of the victims have mentioned they hope that results in significant adjustments.“I hope that we see a transparent path by the suggestions they provide to make sure that this by no means occurs once more,” mentioned Rachel Feres, who misplaced her cousin Peter Livingston and his spouse and two younger daughters within the crash. “That no one else has to get up to listen to that a complete department of their household tree is gone or their spouse is gone or the kid is gone. That’s what I hope popping out of this. I hope we’ve got readability and urgency.”Whether or not that occurs will rely on how Congress, the Military and the Trump administration reply after the listening to. However the victims’ households say they are going to maintain the stress on officers to behave.Younger Alydia and Everly Livingston had been amongst 28 members of the determine skating group who died within the crash. A lot of them had been in Wichita for a nationwide skating competitors and growth camp.The NTSB has already spelled out lots of the key elements that contributed to the crash and detailed what occurred that evening. That features a poorly designed helicopter route previous Reagan Airport, the truth that the Black Hawk was flying 78 toes greater than it ought to have been, the warnings that the FAA ignored within the years beforehand and the Military’s transfer to show off a key system that might have broadcast the helicopter’s location extra clearly.Quite a few different high-profile crashes and shut calls adopted the D.C. collision final yr and fearful the flying public. However NTSB statistics present that the entire variety of crashes final yr was truly the bottom for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020 with 1,405 crashes nationwide.___Fields reported from Washington. Funk contributed from Omaha, Nebraska and White reported from Detroit. AP Airways author Rio Yamat contributed from Las Vegas.
A daylong listening to on Tuesday ought to clarify what elements performed the largest position in inflicting final January’s midair collision close to Washington, D.C., that killed 67 individuals, and the Nationwide Transportation Security Board will advocate what must be performed to forestall related tragedies.
Video above: Households Search Reforms after DC Midair Crash
Everybody aboard an American Airways jet flying from Wichita, Kansas, and an Military Black Hawk helicopter died when the 2 plane bumped into one another and plummeted into the icy Potomac River on Jan. 29, 2025. It was the deadliest airplane crash on U.S. soil since 2001.
The Federal Aviation Administration made a lot of adjustments shortly after the crash to make sure that helicopters and planes not share the identical crowded airspace across the nation’s capital, and final week it made these adjustments everlasting. However the NTSB will advocate extra motion, and the households of the victims have mentioned they hope that results in significant adjustments.
“I hope that we see a transparent path by the suggestions they provide to make sure that this by no means occurs once more,” mentioned Rachel Feres, who misplaced her cousin Peter Livingston and his spouse and two younger daughters within the crash. “That no one else has to get up to listen to that a complete department of their household tree is gone or their spouse is gone or the kid is gone. That’s what I hope popping out of this. I hope we’ve got readability and urgency.”
Whether or not that occurs will rely on how Congress, the Military and the Trump administration reply after the listening to. However the victims’ households say they are going to maintain the stress on officers to behave.
Younger Alydia and Everly Livingston had been amongst 28 members of the determine skating group who died within the crash. A lot of them had been in Wichita for a nationwide skating competitors and growth camp.
The NTSB has already spelled out lots of the key elements that contributed to the crash and detailed what occurred that evening. That features a poorly designed helicopter route previous Reagan Airport, the truth that the Black Hawk was flying 78 toes greater than it ought to have been, the warnings that the FAA ignored within the years beforehand and the Military’s transfer to show off a key system that might have broadcast the helicopter’s location extra clearly.
Quite a few different high-profile crashes and shut calls adopted the D.C. collision final yr and fearful the flying public. However NTSB statistics present that the entire variety of crashes final yr was truly the bottom for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020 with 1,405 crashes nationwide.
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Fields reported from Washington. Funk contributed from Omaha, Nebraska and White reported from Detroit. AP Airways author Rio Yamat contributed from Las Vegas.
