Reagan airport was at the center of a fierce safety debate last year. Lawmakers approved more flights anyway - ‘We’ve been pretty plain about our [safety] concerns, but it isn’t a good time to speculate right now,
The plan to add five incoming and five outgoing flights was included in the bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act last year.
American Eagle Flight 5342 en route from Wichita, Kansas (ICT), to Washington, D.C. (DCA) was involved in an accident at DCA. Rescue operation is underway and US President Donald Trump has said that t
God forbid waking up and looking in a mirror one day and say, ‘Wow, I was warned. I was warned and I shouldn’t have done this,’” Kaine said in 2024.
Before the additional flights were approved, a senator warned that the increase could heighten the risk of collisions.
U.S. authorities said on Thursday it was not yet clear why a regional jet crashed into a U.S. Army helicopter at a Washington airport, killing 67 people in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in more than 20 years.
Lawmakers have an interest in boosting direct flights to their states because Reagan is closer to downtown than Dulles.
American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, was attempting to land when the plane and a Black Hawk helicopter collided.
Investigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the Bombardier CRJ700 passenger jet, the National Transportation Safety Board said
FURIOUS Donald Trump blamed the deadly American Airlines crash on diversity and hapless officials as he addressed a grieving nation. The president confirmed all 67 people had died after a jet and
President Trump says it's an 'hour of anguish' for the US after no survivors are found in the DC midair collision. Here are his full remarks on the crash involving an American Airlines jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members and an Army helicopter while the jet was landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington,