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The big question I have is why do you have a military training flight so close to the route that people are supposed to land... Why is that corridor right on top of the flight corridor?,
said Senator Maria Cantwell in an interview I do think the military was right to pause these flights now,
I think we might need to look at where is an appropriate time to take training risk, and it may not be near an airport like Reagan,
It was a fairly experienced crew and it was doing a required annual night evaluation,
That was as routine a (commercial) flight as it gets,
said Richard Aboulafia, managing director of AeroDynamic The runway threshold is at the river's edge. The Kansas flight was ready to touch down,
Although extremely good because it makes it almost look like daylight, they have a sort of 'tunnel effect'
I can’t get over how stunningly clear it is that this was a preventable crash and this should never, ever have occurred,
Even if everybody is doing what they’re supposed to be doing, you’ve only got a few hundred feet separation between aircraft coming in to land and the many helicopters along that route,
said Jim Brauchle, a former U.S. Air Force navigator and aviation attorney This was a disaster waiting to happen,
said Ross Aimer, a retired United Airlines captain and chief executive officer of Aero Consulting Experts I could not see him. I lost him in the city lights,
Feller, who retired from the Army in 2014, recounted Thursday You’ve got two large airports. You’ve got multiple restricted areas. You’ve got altitude restrictions. Routine restrictions, and a lot of air traffic,
We have raised this issue continuously; we've got very busy airspace."
In a press conference, Senator Mark Warner said on Thursday This was a dark and excruciating night in our nation’s capital and in our nation’s history, and a tragedy of terrible proportions,
I put safety first. Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first."
If you hire somebody today and get them to air traffic control school and take them through all the training, it will take two years before that individual is fully qualified,
Over the past two years, there have been several FAA facilities that have been struggling with having enough qualified personnel to be able to handle the traffic,
The FAA continues to be asked to do more with less in an already strained system, and the series of serious incidents in early 2023 illuminate significant challenges to the provision and safety oversight of air traffic services,
That airspace is unforgiving and there is little room for mistakes,
Skating is a very close-knit and tight community,
said a tearful Doug Zeghibe of the Skating Club of Boston, where Shishkova and Naumov coached
