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Federal private investigators have raised issues of a capacity for another lethal aircraft crash at Reagan National Airport, after a midair collision previously this year eliminated 67.

The National Transportation Safety Board provided an upgrade on their investigation into the reason for the disaster which happened on January 29 in Washington.

An American Airlines jetliner and a Black Hawk military helicopter clashed in midair over the Potomac River, killing everybody on board both airplanes.

As part of a preliminary report released on Tuesday, detectives raised concerns of more crashes including helicopters at the airport.

NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy said: 'We stay worried about the substantial capacity for future mid-air crash at DCA.'

Her issues revolve around Transport Secretary Sean Duffy transferring to limit helicopter traffic around the location, but that is set to stop at the end of the month.

When authorities, medical or governmental transport helicopters should utilize the space civilian planes are stopped from remaining in the exact same location.

Homendy stated the NTSB is now advising that the FAA find a 'irreversible service' for alternate routes for helicopters when two of the airport's runways are in use.

Emergency units respond after a guest airplane collided with a helicopter in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia

Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) Jennifer Homendy talks to reporters about the 29 January mid-air crash

It was likewise revealed on Tuesday that there was cautioning signs in the lead up to the fatal disaster.

Those probing the crash went through 944,179 operations between October 2021 and December 2024.

It was discovered that 15,214 'near-miss occasions' of planes getting informs about helicopters remaining in close proximity between October 2021 and December 2024.

The NTSB also stated that there were 85 cases where two airplane where laterally split by less than 1,500 feet, and a vertical separation of less than 200 feet.

Homendy included: 'That information from October 2021 through December 2024, (the FAA) might have utilized that info any time to determine that we have a trend here and an issue here, and took a look at that route; that didn't happen, which is why we're acting today. But regrettably, individuals lost lives, and liked ones are grieving.'

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy knocked these findings at a later press conference on Tuesday.

Duffy stated: 'I believe the concern is when this information comes in how did the FAA not understand. How did they not study the information to say "hi, this is a location, we are having near misses out on and if we don't alter our methods we are gon na lose lives".'

He added: 'That wasn't done, possibly there was a concentrate on something besides security.'

Duffy would later on added when questioned by a press reporter about the near misses out on that the data had 'p *** ed him off'.

Pictured: Parts of the wreckage seen sitting in the Potomac River after Flight 5342 with an Army Black Hawk helicopter on Wednesday night, killing 67 individuals

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Investigators believe that the helicopter included in the crash may have had inaccurate altitude readings in the minutes before the crash.

The crash likely occurred at an altitude simply under 300 feet, as the aircraft came down toward the chopper, which was above its 200-foot limit for that location.

On Tuesday American Airlines invited the report by the NTSB, saying: 'We're grateful for the National Transportation Safety Board's immediate safety recommendations to restrict helicopter traffic near DCA and for its thorough examination.

'We will continue to collaborate carefully with PSA Airlines as it cooperates as an investigative party member.'

The helicopter pilots might have likewise missed out on part of another communication, when the tower stated the jet was turning towards a various runway, Homendy stated last month.

The helicopter was on a 'check' flight that night where the pilot was undergoing a yearly test and a test on using night vision safety glasses, Homendy stated.

Investigators think the team was using night vision goggles throughout the flight.

The Army has stated the Black Hawk crew was highly experienced, and accustomed to the crowded skies around the nation ´ s capital.

At the time of the collision, a single air traffic controller was simultaneously keeping track of both the helicopter and plane traffic.

Those jobs are usually managed between 2 people from 10am till 9:30 pm, according to an early FAA report seen by The New York Times.

Those tasks are normally managed in between two people from 10am up until 9:30 pm, according to the report.

Surveillance video taken from inside the airport captured the moment the 2 collided in midair

At the time of the collision, a single air traffic controller was at the same time keeping an eye on both the helicopter and airplane traffic. Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is seen here

After 9:30 pm the tasks are usually integrated and delegated one individual as the airport sees less traffic later in the night.

A supervisor apparently decided to integrate those duties before the set up cutoff time nevertheless, and enabled one air traffic controller to leave work early.

The FAA report said that staffing configuration 'was not typical for the time of day and volume of traffic'.

Reagan National has been understaffed for several years, with simply 19 totally certified controllers as of September 2023 - well listed below the target of 30 - according to the most recent Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan submitted to Congress.

The scenario appeared to have actually improved given that then, as a source informed CNN the Reagan National control tower was 85 percent staffed with 24 of 28 positions filled.

Chronic understaffing at air traffic control service towers is absolutely nothing new, with widely known causes including high turnover and budget cuts.

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In order to fill the spaces, controllers are regularly asked to work 10-hour days, six days a week.

After the release of the report, former Inspector General of the US Department of Transportation Mary Schiavo deemed the findings as 'uncommon'.

She stated: 'This NTSB action is highly uncommon. The release of an emergency suggestion asking for the FAA take immediate action, before the completion of the NTSB investigation is rare.'

The two aircraft had actually clashed in a big fireball that was visible on dashcams of cars and trucks driving on highways that snake around the airport, before plunging into the river.

Less than a month later on, on February 17, a Delta guest plane crashed-landed upside down in disorderly scenes at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada.

Miraculously, everybody on board survived after being suspended upside-down by their seat belts for several minutes up until they tentatively started evacuating.

The plane had been heading to Toronto from Minneapolis - Saint Paul International Airport with 76 guests and four team members on board.

Some 21 people were required to the healthcare facility for treatment to small injuries, and Delta has actually used each individual a no-strings $30,000 payout in compensation.

And the plane carnage is ongoing - on Sunday, yet another jet crash-landed, this time in a car park of a suburban Pennsylvania retirement home.

Dramatic footage showed the Beechcraft A36TC appear in flames in the parking area of Brethren Village in Manheim Township. Five individuals were rushed to health center.

Medics, ambulances, and emergency situation automobiles hurried to the scene in Lancaster County as flames engulfed the airplane and close-by lorries.

The aircraft took off as arranged on Sunday afternoon, however quickly requested to land back on the tarmac due to the fact that its door had actually opened.

American Airlines