U.S. Federal Aviation Administration head Bryan Bedford said \u200chis agency accepted findings by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board that a series of systemic failures by the FAA led to a devastating mid-air collision that killed 67 people last year.
The January 2025 collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster in more than two decades.
The NTSB determined last week that the accident was caused by the FAA’s decision to allow helicopters to travel close to the airport with no safeguards to separate them from airplanes and its failure to review data and act on recommendations to move helicopter traffic away from the airport.
“We don’t disagree with anything that the NTSB has concluded from their investigations. Many of the recommendations have already been put into action. Those that haven’t, we’re going to evaluate,” Bedford told reporters on the sidelines of an aviation conference in Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration head Bryan Bedford said \u200chis agency accepted findings by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board that a series of systemic failures by the FAA led to a devastating mid-air collision that killed 67 people last year.The January 2025 collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n