White House fires NTSB board member
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The National Transportation Safety Board has released its final report on the fatal DC plane crash outside Reagan National Airport on Jan. 29, 2025. The report found that heavy airport traffic, combined with improper training and safety precautions ...
Todd Inman said in a statement that he received notice Friday from the White House personnel office that his position on the National Transportation Safety Board was “terminated effective immediately.
According to the NTSB, safety equipment required by the ROTOR Act would have prevented the January 2025 midair collision between an American Eagle regional jet and a military Black Hawk helicopter.
Legislation requiring aircraft locator systems aimed at preventing midair collisions did not receive the two-thirds majority needed to pass the House.
The House failed to approve a bill Tuesday that was crafted after last year’s tragic D.C. to require all aircraft flying around busy airports to have key locator systems to prevent such crashes. The collision of an airliner and an Army helicopter killed 67 people.
Key senators and the families of the 67 dead in an airliner collision with an Army helicopter near the nation's capital are convinced that advanced aircraft locator systems recommended by experts for nearly two decades would have prevented last year's tragedy.
WASHINGTON — A series of systematic failures caused a Connecticut-built U.S. Army helicopter to crash into a passenger jet near Washington, D.C. last year, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board. The midair ...
A preliminary report shows that a private jet that crashed in Maine in January remained on the ground 8 minutes longer than it should have after receiving a deicing treatment during a snowstorm.