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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Funk

Broken altimeter, ignored warnings: Hearings reveal what went wrong in DC crash that killed 67

APTOPIX Aircraft Down Investigation - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Over three days of sometimes contentious hearings this week, the National Transportation Safety Board interrogated Federal Aviation Administration and Army officials about a list of things that went wrong and contributed to a Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger jet colliding over Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.

The biggest revelations: The helicopter's altimeter gauge was broken, and controllers warned the FAA years earlier about the dangers that helicopters presented.

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