21 hours ago Could the Washington DC air disaster happen in Britain? As Trump blames diversity, how the UK's air traffic controllers are recruited

Inevitably, air traffic control authorities around the world - including within the UK - will be carefully analysing Wednesday night's disaster.

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26 hours ago Moment air traffic controller screams as American Airlines plane collides with Black Hawk helicopter over Washington

Air traffic control (ATC) operators were directing the doomed Black Hawk Sikorsky H-60 helicopter - marked as a PAT 25 - to pass behind the plane just seconds before the deadly crash occurred.

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7 hours ago Washington plane crash: Black box recovered from Black Hawk helicopter as 41 bodies pulled from Potomac river

Questions grow about air safety in the US capital as Donald Trump says Black Hawk chopper was 'flying too high' at time of collision

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24 hours ago Moment air traffic controller gasps as American Airlines plane and US Army helicopter crash in Washington DC

A gasp can be heard on air traffic control audio as an American Airlines plane and a US Army helicopter collided in Washington DC on Wednesday, 29 January.

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25 hours ago Washington plane crash: Air traffic controller 'allowed to leave early' before mid

Questions grow about air safety in the US capital as Donald Trump says Black Hawk chopper was 'flying too high' at time of collision

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25 hours ago Washington plane crash: Trump says army helicopter was 'flying too high' before collision as black boxes found from American Airlines jet

President’s latest intervention in the investigation into the disaster comes as questions grow about air safety in the US capital

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30 hours ago Five unanswered questions of Washington DC plane crash horror – runway change and night flying

A number of snags have been raised about why the American Airlines flight and Black Hawk collided – including a last minute runway change for the plane and ambiguous direction from air traffic control.

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30 hours ago Washington plane crash questions – runway change, strange orders and wrong visual

A number of snags have been raised about why the American Airlines flight and Black Hawk collided – including a last minute runway change for the plane and ambiguous direction from air traffic control.

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32 hours ago Washington plane crash: Black boxes found after American Airlines jet collision disaster amid air traffic shortage claims

Divers will on Friday aim to salvage the crashed American Airlines plane and Black Hawk helicopter from the Potomac River

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33 hours ago Listen to the terrible 'mistake' that caused DC plane crash, according to air traffic controller

An air traffic control veteran with 23 years' experience said the audio that emerged from the crash shows the operator's tragic mistake.

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37 hours ago Washington plane crash: cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder recovered

Recorders from plane are currently at National Transportation Safety Board labs for analysis, agency saysWashington DC plane crash – latest updatesFirst confirmed victims include figure-skating championsInvestigators recovered the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder from the plane involved in Wednesday night’s mid-air collision with a US military helicopter that killed all 67 people onboard both aircraft.The recorders are currently at the National Transportation Safety Board labs for analysis, the agency said on Thursday evening, and are expected to shed light on exactly what went wrong. Preliminary reports raised questions over whether understaffing in an air traffic control tower at the Washington DC airport played a role in the United States’ worst aviation disaster in years. Continue reading...

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