Reagan airport was at the center of a fierce safety debate last year. Lawmakers approved more flights anyway - ‘We’ve been pretty plain about our [safety] concerns, but it isn’t a good time to speculate right now,

The plan to add five incoming and five outgoing flights was included in the bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act last year.

Political leaders had warned about the dangers of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. months before an American Airlines flight collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on its approach to the airport.

God forbid waking up and looking in a mirror one day and say, ‘Wow, I was warned. I was warned and I shouldn’t have done this,’” Kaine said in 2024.

Before the additional flights were approved, a senator warned that the increase could heighten the risk of collisions.

American Eagle Flight 5342 en route from Wichita, Kansas (ICT), to Washington, D.C. (DCA) was involved in an accident at DCA. President Donald Trump , while addressing the media from White house, clarified that there are no survivors.

U.S. authorities said on Thursday it was not yet clear why a regional jet crashed into a U.S. Army helicopter at a Washington airport, killing 67 people in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in more than 20 years.

American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, was attempting to land when the plane and a Black Hawk helicopter collided.

A midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight from Kansas killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft. That was the word from authorities Thursday as

FURIOUS Donald Trump blamed the deadly American Airlines crash on diversity and hapless officials as he addressed a grieving nation. The president confirmed all 67 people had died after a jet and

Lawmakers have an interest in boosting direct flights to their states because Reagan is closer to downtown than Dulles.