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5 Essential Hawk Identification Tips for Birders
Use expert tips and a helpful chart to improve your hawk identification skills. Plus, learn about the common types of hawks ...
Crowded Skies, Thin Margins for Error: The Minutes Before the D.C. Air Disaster
Using radio traffic, flight data and leaked footage of an air traffic control radar screen, we examine what was happening in the moments before the midair collision near Reagan National Airport that ...
Approach for Reagan National’s Runway 33 is within feet of helicopter corridor
A Washington Post analysis of FAA maps shows the proximity of the flight path to a helicopter “tunnel” at a midair crossroads ...
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U.S. F-16 Fighters Shot Down Drones with Laser-Guided Rockets in Combat
The U.S. Air Force confirmed that F-16 fightes used Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System 70mm guided rockets in the ...
Helicopter May Have Deviated From Approved Path Before Deadly Crash
The Army Black Hawk is said to have been flying higher than it should have been when it collided with a passenger jet, killing 67 people. And the air traffic controller on duty was doing a job usually ...
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New Angles of Black Hawk Helicopter Colliding With American Airlines Plane Released
As multiple federal agencies continued to investigate the tragic Washington D.C. midair disaster, a new angle of the Black ...
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Data from the deadliest U.S. air accident in a generation show conflicting altitude readings
Officials say preliminary data from the midair crash between an airliner and an Army helicopter showed conflicting ...
The moments before 67 souls perished in a midair collision over the Potomac River
A regional jet departed Kansas and headed to one of the country’s most congested and complicated flight approaches, just ...
New footage shows terrifying moment of fatal DC collision as President Trump claims Black Hawk helicopter was flying too high
President Trump has blamed the deadly DC crash on a Black Hawk helicopter flying too high, while newly released footage has offered a chilling new perspective of the deadly collision that killed 67 ...
1000 air traffic controllers ‘denied jobs’
The US’ Federal Aviation Administration is facing legal action alleging it denied 1000 would-be air traffic controllers jobs because of diversity hiring targets — as it was revealed that staffing ...
Pilots have reported repeated close calls similar to fatal collision near DC airport
Airline pilots flying into Washington, D.C., have reported nearly a dozen near misses over the years that were scarily ...
New Angle of Black Hawk Crashing Into Plane Raises Questions
Two new videos of the fatal American Airlines crash on Wednesday night are adding to speculation about how it happened.