Washington -Congress members have expressed concerns about the amount of air congestion in areas that collided with military helicopters on the Potomax River on Wednesday night.
Representatives said they were not responsible for the accident and trusted the National Traffic Safety Commission that they would conduct a long and detailed investigation. However, they said that the worries of fatal collisions about the traffic of busy transport corridors, which share air pace and airspace, which are known as the DCA, have been enhanced.
“I’ve been worried about this for a long time. I’m worried about it. National Transportation Safety Board investigates this and I am highly confident. They are this devastating. Looking at the cause of the tragedy, they are not going to guess the reporter. 。
“But yeah, I have been very worried about this very complicated airspace -commercial, military, and security demands of being the capital of the state. And I’m really worried about it, “Kane continued.
“I prayed that there was nothing like last night,” he said.
There were 60 passengers and four crews on the American Eagle Jet flying to the DCA on the Virginia side of the Potomax River from Wichita, Kansas. The three were on the Army Black Hawk Helicopter. President Donald Trump said in the White House briefing that there was no survivor to drop CRASH.
The airspace above Washington is complicated for various reasons. DCA is one of the busiest airports in Japan, and hundreds of flights arrive every day and leave. DCA recorded 25.5 million passengers in 2023.
Some of the airspaces above Washington are limited due to security issues. In addition, there are many Marines, the military, the National Park Bureau, the Great City Police Station, the Great City Police Station, and other aircraft. Maryland and Virginia. The joint -based Anacostia Binging is also on the other side of the DCA Potomac.
Rick Larsen, D-Wash. He was a ranking member of the lower house transport and infrastructure committee, and he had previously spent 20 years to the Armed Service Committee, but he said he had never been afraid of the congestion there. I did it. past.
But he said on a Thursday phone, “This tragedy certainly causes my concern about the traffic in the area.” Larsen added that the first response to the first response to the scene on Wednesday night should be focused.
He said that NTSB assigned 40 investigators and staff to crashes and could take more than a year for their probes.
“Slow processes begin to investigate the root cause, so the timeline is the timeline, and we expect a preliminary report a few weeks later,” Larsen said. “But the survey takes a long time … it may take 18 months.”
GOP Senator Jerry Moran, a member of the Kansas Congress, was working on American Airlines to add non -stop flights between Wichita and DCA, which has existed for about a year. Moran said he had flyed many times.
Republican Roger Marshall, a Republican Republican member of Kansas, hopes to meet the reporters on Thursday to meet the family of the victims of Washington late in the afternoon, and will receive a briefing from the NTSB and the Federal Aviation Bureau. Ta.
He says that the aircraft control officer should have been flying at a different altitude, and the helicopter pilot should have the visuals of multiple airplanes landing in the DCA. I added that there is enough responsibility.
“Obviously, this was the junction of the error … it is unacceptable. President Trump and his team have a problem here, there is a problem here, and we intend to fix them,” said Marshall. I did it.
Marshall, who was asked if he was worried about the atmosphere congestion in the area, replied. I understand what happens in general. Military aircraft share shared aircraft with commercial aircraft. But do you need it? Are you just inviting for a disaster? And that’s the question I want to answer. “
The sky above Washington is crowded recently. The FAA re -approval method, which was passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April last year, supported the staff of the air traffic controller, but also added five long -distance round -trip flights from DCA. I did it.
MARIA Cantwell Representative D-Wash. , And Ted Cruz of R-Texas, the leader of the Senate Commercial Science Committee, negotiated. However, additional flights were opposed by four Democratic members of Virginia and Maryland.
In a floor speech in the FAA debate in May, Kane, a Senator Virginia, pointed out a recent collision on the DCA runway between the Southwest Airlines and Jet Blue Airlines.
“Congratulations, you encounter the risk of safety,” Kane said.
Currently, Cruz, chairman of the Commercial Committee, which provides aircraft monitoring, has held a “high -level” briefing with the members of the panel in the second half of Thursday, and has been known so far. He said to investigate that. His own panels will also investigate.
“I instructed the commercial committee to actively collect information about what was wrong,” he wrote.
