Complaints about the FAA’s hiring policies resurfaced after the American Airlines passenger plane and a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Washington, DC.
Reports by pilots and government investigators show how concerns over coordinating airplane and helicopter traffic at Reagan National Airport go back decades.
While some reports suggest the helicopter pilot may have mistaken another plane for the American Airlines jet, Katz believes it was more likely human error.
An Afghanistan veteran and a pilot who once served in the Navy were two of three soldiers killed in an Army helicopter’s midair collision with a commercial jet over the Potomac River in Washington, D.