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The mid-air collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport has raised serious concerns about aviation safety and air traffic control staffing. teleSUR
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00:00A preliminary report by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on the deadline amid the collision
00:05between an American airline jet and a military helicopter on Wednesday suggests that aviation
00:11safety procedures might have failed. According to the report, the helicopter was flying outside
00:17its approved path at the moment of the collision. The document also stated that the pilots of the
00:24passenger jet most likely did not see the helicopter as they made a turn towards the
00:29runway and that the traffic controller was performing two jobs at the same time and was
00:37unable to keep the helicopter and the plane separate. Pilots or traffic controllers and
00:43safety experts have reportedly been warning for years about growing holes in the aviation systems
00:49that could lead to the kind of the crash that occurred on Wednesday where 67 people lost their
00:55life.
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