Airline pilots got more than 100 collision warnings for helicopters in the decade leading up to last month’s deadly air crash that killed 67 people at Reagan National Airport, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
The 104 incidents generated by the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System were logged by air traffic controllers, and concerns were separately surfaced to the Federal Aviation Administration, which controls the routes of helicopters and planes and dictates procedures, the Post reported.
It’s unclear what actions — if any — were taken by the FAA, but the route description for the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines commercial airliner on Jan. 29 was verbatim what it was in 2012, according to the Post.
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