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D.C. plane crash: U.S. to reduce helicopter flights near busy airport - National | Globalnews.ca

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’ll adopt the NTSB ’s recommendations for the route where the midair collision occurred.

In just over three years , there were 85 close calls when a few feet in the wrong direction could have resulted in the same kind of accident that happened on Jan. 29 .

Investigators have identified 15,000 instances of planes getting alerts about helicopters being in close proximity between October 2021 and December 2024 .

The NTSB will look at the amount of traffic at Reagan and staffing in the control tower to determine if either of those factors played a role in the collision.

It will take more than a year to get the final NTSB report.

President Trump blamed the midair collision on what he called an “obsolete” air traffic control system.

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