House to Vote on Air Safety Bill After NTSB Report on Fatal D.C. Crash

The National Transportation Safety Board released its final report on the midair collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport that killed 67 people, and House leaders said they will put the Senate-passed safety bill to a vote as soon as Monday. The 419-page report described missed warnings, institutional failures and human error, and N.T.S.B.

chair Jennifer Homendy called the crash "100 percent preventable." Its recommendations mirror long-standing proposals from aviation safety advocates, but Congress and federal agencies will decide whether to act on them. The Senate approved a bipartisan bill that would require the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct airport safety reviews and mandate advanced location-tracking technology in busy airspace — measures the N.T.S.B.

said would address key factors in the Jan. 29, 2025 collision between an Army Black Hawk and American Airlines Flight 5342, when the pilots did not realize they were on a collision course until barely more than a second before impact.

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