There have been more details revealed about the Washington D.C. collision between an American Airlines flight and a U.S. Army Black Hawk during final approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport — a crash that killed 67 people. Transcripts from the Black Hawk have brought us closer to answers than we were before.
When horrific details of the crash first emerged, a transcript capturing the confusion it caused in air traffic control was read by people across the nation, and concerns about the state of the aviation industry grew even more pronounced. There were already growing concerns about manufacturers like Boeing bringing to market airplanes that have been involved in multiple crashes in a relatively short time, and a further crisis in the understaffing of air traffic control departments across the nation’s airports. But it turns out the issue here might have been something else entirely.
