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The US airline has been 16 years without a fatal crash until Wednesday night. However, the safety record was impressive, but in recent years there was a significant risk warning of a collision like a collision that had just killed 67 people.
The local jet in Wichita, Kansas, was operated as an American Airlines flight by Fuder Career PSA Airlines and was preparing to land at Ronal Dragan Washington National Airport. On the ground. The crash was unknown on Thursday, as the investigation has just begun. Since 2009, it has been the first fatal crash for commercial US airplanes.
Aviation driving is safe, but US travel systems have been increasing in recent years. This has not been fully established, despite trying to strengthen its employment for many years. And the congestion in many major metropolitan areas around Washington DC is at risk of flying that may suggest a year without a collision of more than 16 years.
“I'm sad, but I'm not surprised,” said Anthony Brick House, a aviation safety expert. “In the past two to three years, there were a lot of close calls with commercial aircraft near and near the airport environment. If the change is not made, we will eventually meet the tragedy.”

Experts say that the United States has a gold standard for the safety of the airline, and commercial air trips are the safest travel form, but stressful systems in recent tragedies. I say there is.
Captain Dennis Tije, Captain Dennis Tije, a pilot of American Airlines, saying that the tense air traffic control system and congestion are narrowed down in the airspace of many major cities to operate the American aviation transport system. I told CNN early.
“You are stacking everything on you,” he said. “We must protect the trust of the Americans to the system and prevent such tragedy from re -occurring. The proverb has to be investigated. Self -satisfaction has no place in the sky today. You need to confirm that you will maintain that attitude. ”
In many cases, a near -clash that is generally referred to as “near miss” is much more common than most passengers.
In fact, one day before the collision, another regional jet aircraft approaching Reagan National Airport, according to the audio of air traffic control, stop the first landing after the helicopter flew near the flight route. I was forced to do it.
The jet in the area inbounding from Bradley International Airport near Heartford, Connecticut began to climb to the right and said, “I had a helicopter traffic. I immediately landed at the airport. This case was Washington. It was first reported by the post.
Thursday CNN reported that in the past three years, at least two other pilots have reported that they reported a clash close to helicopters while landing in Reagan National.
According to a report submitted by the pilot, the two passenger aircraft had to avoid colliding with a helicopter when trying to land at the airport. In the third case, an air traffic controller reported that two military helicopters were too close.
“I can't believe how much of us will fly without any problems,” said the former FAA administrator Randy Babbit. “So, when we have it, it will brighten everything.”
There were many other such incidents, which are characterized by FAA collisions. One occurred in Phoenix three weeks ago. The United Airlines flight from San Francisco carried 123 passengers and six crews, and the Delta Air Line Flight, which carries 245 passengers from Detroit, has obtained clearance to land at almost the same time. The warning was too close to each other. The aircraft was 1,217 feet (less than a quarter of miles), according to the data of Flight Tracking Site Flightradar24.
The cockpit warning system, which warned of these two airplanes, may not have been unable to warn the pilot on the American flight on Wednesday night. Details of the warning received by both aircraft pilots will be determined by a future collision survey by the National Transportation Safety Board.
There is something close to a collision on the ground, not in the air. However, they are as dangerous as the airplane is moving at the time of takeoff or landing.
On December 27, a charter jet carrying the Gonzaga Men's Basketball Team crossed the runway of Los Angeles International Airport, where the delta airplane was taking off.
Some of the collisions approached two airplanes even closer to each other. On February 4, 2023, Fedex Get came within 150 feet from the runway, and noticed that the pilot was taking off on the same runway. It was only one of these five incidents in just seven weeks at the beginning of last year.
And in July 2017, Air Canada's jet, which was piloted by the captain who woke up for more than 19 hours, landed almost on the sect of San Francisco International Airport, which was filled with three wide body jets. When I was piloted by the captain, I was waiting for takeoff with passengers, which was not potentially serious.
NTSB later determined that the Jet of the Air Canada was less than 100 feet from the ground and then took off again without contacting any of the ground passengers. Safety regulation authorities said that if the accident was not avoided at the last moment, more than 1,000 airplanes could have died.
“It would have been the worst disaster in aviation history,” said Brick House, a aviation specialist. “Pilots, air control officers, mechanics -all of them are human and humans make mistakes. We can recover from them without tragedy when a mistake occurs. I am.
And because such a collision is very common, the Federal Aviation Bureau announced such an audit last fall.
In addition, there is only one air traffic controller who handles two different tower positions during a collision on Wednesday night, and the air traffic control source is transmitted to the CNN. The information source explained the setup, which is not unusual, and has only one person who processes both local and helicopters.
The Reagan National Control Tower is 85 % of the staff, and the sources state that 24 out of 28 are satisfied.
Photo: Fatal collision DC between the passenger seat near the Washington DC and the helicopter
Despite the fact that there is nothing to be known at this point regarding the negligence of air traffic control, airplane pilot, or helicopter pilot, it has been involved in those roles on Wednesday nights. Not to mention the qualifications of the people, President Donald Trump accused the Democratic Party's efforts to promote diversity as part of the employment process in the FAA air traffic regulation system without evidence. Vice President JD VANCE reflected the claim.
At a press conference, he asked if the air control officer was accused of crash, or if he had been in his job despite his qualifications. Why he asked why he believed that diversity's employment effort played a role in crashes, and said, “I have common sense, so many people are not so.” 。
Trump has signed a presidential order that prohibits most federal diversity, fairness, and inclusion programs, including the Transportation Bureau. However, he did not nominate the new head of the FAA until Thursday's press conference. He announced that he chose Chris Rochelow and led the government's major aviation safety regulatory authorities. Michael Witaker, the previous FAA administrator, quit his job on the day of Trump.
Some airports and airports are more stressful than other airports. The Ronal Dragan Washington National Airport has the busiest runway in Japan. At the airport, an American flight from Boston in May was forced to stop taking off to avoid another landing plane.
On April 18, a jet blue airplane and the southwest airplane almost collided on the runway of Reagan National Airport in Washington.
Strict restrictions on the place where the plane can fly is a major issue in Washington DC, and there are narrow flight routes to avoid areas with high security such as Capitol Building and White House. The capital of the country represents the unique difficult question of flights in the United States. Demand is very large in Reagan Washington National, thanks to how close to downtown Washington. Also, members of Congress, which manages the number of aircraft that can use the airport, often seek more direct flights to more destinations.
Congress approved five round -trip flights at the airport last fall. Senator Jerry Moran said at a press conference at the airport early on Thursday, a few hours after CRASH dropped to an American to schedule a flight from Washington Airport.
“I know the flight. Moran, a Republican member of Kansas, states:” I am a lobby activity to start a non -stop flight service directly to DCA on American Airlines. It has been around for about a year.

At a press conference on Thursday morning, Sean Duffy, a limited time, was convinced that the air traffic system was safe, but an accident needed to change things. He said.
“What happened yesterday must have happened,” he said. “When Americans take off by plane, they should be expected to land in their destination. That did not happen yesterday. It is not accepted.”
CNN's Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, Oren Liebermann, Aaron Cooper, Casey Tolan, Majle de Puy Kampe, Haley Britzky, Donalden Judd has contributed to this report.