Trump Begins Firings of FAA Air Traffic Control Staff Just Weeks After Fatal DC Plane Crash

Salvage crews work on recovering wreckage near the site in the Potomac River of a mid-air collision

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president […]

3 Army Soldiers Killed in Tragic Collision with Passenger Plane Near DC Airport

Search and rescue efforts are seen around a wreckage site in the Potomac River

Three unidentified Army soldiers died after their Black Hawk helicopter collided with a passenger flight over Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night during an annual training exercise, according to the Pentagon. The UH-60 helicopter was from Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion, out of Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Heather Chairez, a Joint Task Force North-National Capital Region spokesperson, […]

Plane Crash Near Aberdeen Proving Ground Kills Army General

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Anthony W. Potts

An Army general died when his small private plane crashed near Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland on Tuesday, according to the service. Maj. Gen. Anthony Potts, who recently oversaw the Army’s Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications-Tactical, or PEO C3T, died when the single-engine Piper PA-28 Cherokee airplane he was piloting crashed in […]