Long-standing concerns about military helicopters flying in crowded airspace and worries over short staffing among federal aviation workers emerged Thursday as key factors in investigators’ inquiry into the fatal midair crash between an Army helicopter and a commercial airliner earlier this year. During the second of three days of witness testimony and public inquiry by the National Transportation Safety Board…| NBC4 Washington
Hearings began on the deadly midair collision between a passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter over Washington, D.C., in January.| NBC4 Washington
The National Transportation Safety Board will hold three days of hearings on the fatal midair collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter. The goal of the hearings is to pinpoint exactly what went wrong and how to avoid similar accidents. The crash occurred in January in the skies above Washington. It killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft. The NTSB’s hearings will be in Washington and will start Wednesday. They come at a time of heightened scrutiny of the safety of air trav...| NBC4 Washington