Recent Warnings and Dangerous Conditions at National

<NEW> DCA fight club! 

• Chaos in the control tower 

• Crisis intervention for controllers? 

<NEW> Yet Another near miss at DCA -  Delta and Military jets 

Another near miss at National 

Planes, helicopters, and now kite threats - it just gets more uncontrolled

Are you scared yet? GPS hacking 

New FAA administrator making the skies more dangerous Politico 

FAA data shows 30 near-misses since 1987 at DCA  - of which 10 involved helicopters

Great article from AXIOS - "Why Congress can add flights to D.C.'s busiest airport" 

Read 1/30 article From Democracynow

Timeline of events affecting FAA vis-a-vis DCA January crash  (concerned yet?)

• 1/20: Trump sworn in

• 1/20: FAA chief leaves after Musk demands he resigns  because of $650K penalty for safety violatiuons at SpaceX 

•  1/21: Air Traffic Controller hiring Freeze 

•  1/22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded 

•  1/29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years 

•  1/30 Trump blames DEI for crash and orders DEI review at FAA 

•  3/11 NTSB forces FAA to finally takes action to ban helicopters from interfering with flight paths New NTSB Rules

  • Investigators uncovered 15,214 “near miss events” between 2021 and 2024 where aircraft were within one nautical mile of colliding, with a vertical separation of less than 400 feet. Additionally, there were also 85 cases where two aircraft were separated by less than 1,500 feet, with a vertical separation of less than 200 feet, according to the NTSB. 

•  3/27 Insightful comments from FAA Administrator about deadly crash "something was missed" (Really?)