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Bombardier-Black Hawk crash in Washington DC cause: Faulty altimeter blinded pilots, lax airspace rules; Army-FAA clash during hearing

A deadly midair collision occurred in Washington this January. Sixty-seven people died in the accident. A broken altimeter ...

NTSB hearing reveals air traffic controllers should have warned passenger plane about helicopter before collision, but didn’t

The National Transportation Safety Board will question witnesses Thursday about air traffic control training, a key part of ...

Army knew of Black Hawk altitude errors years before DCA crash, NTSB finds

A National Transportation Safety Board hearing revealed that the U.S. Army was aware of altitude discrepancies on Black Hawk ...

Final Conversation Revealed Between Black Hawk Pilot and Her Instructor Before They Collided with Passenger Jet

New details have been released about the seconds before an Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines jet in January ...

Less than a second before hitting a passenger jet, helicopter instructor told pilot to change course, NTSB hearing reveals

The first of the National Transportation Safety Board’s three days of investigative hearings is underway to help determine ...

Night vision goggles may have hampered helicopter pilots before crash with jet, experts tell NTSB

The Army goggles would have made it difficult to see the plane's colored lights, which might have helped the Black Hawk ...

NTSB hearing live updates: Black Hawk devices gave crew wrong altitude data before D.C. plane crash

The NTSB begins three days of hearings on the deadly D.C. plane crash with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport.