Federal detectives have actually raised concerns of a potential for another fatal plane crash at Reagan National Airport, after a midair accident previously this year eliminated 67.

The National Transportation Safety Board offered an upgrade on their investigation into the reason for the catastrophe which occurred on January 29 in Washington.

An American Airlines jetliner and a Black Hawk military helicopter collided in midair over the Potomac River, killing everybody on board both airplanes.

As part of an initial report launched on Tuesday, detectives raised issues of more collisions involving helicopters at the airport.

NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy stated: ‘We stay worried about the considerable potential for future mid-air crash at DCA.‘

Her issues focus on Transport Secretary Sean Duffy transferring to restrict helicopter traffic around the location, however that is set to stop at the end of the month.

When police, medical or presidential transportation helicopters need to use the space civilian planes are stopped from remaining in the same location.

Homendy stated the NTSB is now advising that the FAA discover a ‘long-term option’ for alternate routes for helicopters when two of the airport’s runways are in usage.

Emergency units respond after a passenger airplane clashed with a helicopter in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia

Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) Jennifer Homendy speaks with reporters about the 29 January mid-air accident

It was likewise exposed on Tuesday that there was cautioning check in the lead up to the deadly disaster.

Those probing the crash went through 944,179 operations between October 2021 and December 2024.

It was discovered that 15,214 ‘near-miss events’ of planes getting signals about helicopters being in close proximity between October 2021 and December 2024.

The NTSB likewise stated that there were 85 cases where two airplane where laterally split by less than 1,500 feet, and a vertical separation of less than 200 feet.

Homendy added: ‘That information from October 2021 through December 2024, (the FAA) could have used that details at any time to determine that we have a trend here and an issue here, and took a look at that route