The Baltimore Sun

Lesson from DCA: No low-level night flights | READER COMMENTARY

From 1973 to 1976, I was a U.S. Army aviator stationed at Tipton U.S. Army Airfield at Fort Meade in Odenton. I flew both rotary and fixed wing aircraft. Quite a few times, I flew the “low-level route ...
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Some air traffic controllers wanted to close a helicopter route near Washington’s airport. It was abandoned as ‘too political.’

An ad hoc working group that included air traffic controllers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport previously sought changes to a helicopter route at the center of an investigation into what ...
WUSA

Helicopter routes, zones around DCA change, 9 months after deadly collision

WASHINGTON — Nine months after the deadly plane collision that claimed 67 lives, helicopter routes and zones are changing around D.C.-area airports. The Federal Aviation Administration published new ...
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FAA Updates Helicopter Routes, Adds Buffer Zones at Washington DC Airports

The Federal Aviation Administration has updated helicopter route charts at several Washington, D.C. area airports, including some permanent changes eight months after a midair collision that killed 67 ...