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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Funk

Day 2 of federal investigation into fatal midair crash of Army chopper, commercial plane opens

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

The National Transportation Safety Board enters a second day of public hearings Thursday on the January midair collision between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger plane that killed all 67 people aboard the aircrafts.

On the first day, investigators highlighted a number of factors that may have contributed to the crash and the warnings about helicopter traffic that FAA received years before the tragedy over the Potomac River.

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