"We as a group can never go back to just getting on a plane and trusting that everything will be OK," one relative told Newsweek.

The NTSB is urging the FAA to take steps to ensure helicopter traffic is never permitted to cross arrival and departure paths ...

The FAA is taking a series of steps to improve safety around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) that follows the NTSB’s recommendations.

Additionally, there were also 85 cases where two aircraft were separated by less than 1,500 feet, with a vertical separation of less than 200 feet, according to the NTSB. Homendy said the FAA ...

Two-thirds of the events occurred at night.” On 11 March the NTSB also made “urgent” recommendations to the FAA to address “the potential for midair collisions between traffic on ...

The NTSB said the separation between helicopters and jets in the area was insufficient and posed “an intolerable risk to aviation safety by increasing the chances of a midair collision.” ...

The NTSB issued urgent recommendations to the FAA, including prohibiting helicopter operations on certain routes during Runway 33 landings or Runway 15 departures at DCA. The National ...

Credit: NTSB The NTSB is urging the FAA to take steps to ensure helicopter traffic is never permitted to cross arrival and departure paths at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA ...

The NTSB is specifically recommending that the FAA permanently prohibit operations on helicopter Route 4, a four-mile stretch between Hains Point and the Wilson Bridge along the Potomac River ...

Current airport flight safety practices create an "intolerable safety risk" that could be eliminated by changing allowed ...

The NTSB determined that the existing separation distance between planes and helicopters at Reagan airport is “insufficient and poses an intolerable risk to aviation safety,” Homendy said.

Here are some key takeaways from the NTSB’s preliminary report: The Federal Aviation Administration will adopt certain restrictions on helicopter routes at Ronald Reagan Washington National ...