Air traffic controllers to get more support after fighting and the latest near Miss at Washington Airport star-news.press/wp

Air traffic controllers Ronald Ronalda Reagan National Airport in Washington will be offered to crisis consultation and additional supervision after the fight in the tower and Another alarming near Miss Two months after courtship near the passenger jet and the helicopter army 67 people killed.

The Federal Aviation Administration She said on Wednesday, is estimated and is the current arrival rate in Reagan too high. The Agency said to expand additional support to the controllers that direct flights in traffic airport, and the Congress and the National Committee for Transportation Security continue to explore the deadly decline in collisions.

Sen. Ted Cruz, Chairman of the Senate Trade Committee, said that worrying wrongs from the collision “emphasizes the unsafe situation in the Nation Airspace”. Expressing frustration with the rejection of the Army to take over the letter of detailed flight rules, CRUZ said during the hearing that any death came from another collision “to be in the arms arms.”

The FAA decision on the crisis advisor has followed the arrest of a 39-year-old employee from Maryland on suspicion of attack and battery after the struggle of the tower, the Washington Airports Metropolitce Authority confirmed in the statement.

Were not released in connection with transitional data. FAA said that the employee was placed on administrative leave until the lawsuit was explored.

The next day, the Delta Passenger nozzle had to take the avoidance of actions because from Reagan took off due to the proximity of the flight of four airlines involved in the overflow in the Arlington National Cemetery. The incident continued Call closing pattern If NTSB said that for years lasted around the airport as commercial flights several times dangerously near helicopters and other planes.

Faa said on Wednesday he had reviewed the “current arrival rate on the clock, which is disproportionately concentrated in the last 30 minutes each hour.”

Afterward collision, The arrival rate at the airport fell for 26 hours while crew worked on the return of the wrecks of American aircraft jets and the army of the Black Helicopter from the Potomac River. But the Faa’s Chief Faa said at the hearing last week to come now return to 30 per hour and can go up to 32. Now the agency reassessed.

To help stress, FAA plans regular wellness verifications of their staff in Reagan as well as available counselors. It was not immediately clear whether the agency took that step immediately after the collision 29. January. The supervisor number will increase with six to eight, and the agency will assess whether enough controls are working any shifts.

Union representing air traffic controllers in Reagan and Airports across the country refused to comment on the situation.

During the hearing on Wednesday, Cruz threatened the army with a court judgment if he did not give a copy of his note document allowed without a crucial system that broadcasts their location on other aircraft.

The fact that the system is not activated in the Black Hawk collided with a passenger jet key concerns emphasized investigators. With the location off, the tower had to rely on radar for updates on the Helicopter position that came only once in four seconds instead of every second before the collision.

“Distance to the military does not want to know the military to know why it was glued to other air traffic planes and controllers near DCA (Reagan Airport)?” Reagan Airport)? “This is not acceptable.”

The military did not immediately answer the query on Wednesday regarding the record. The Head of the American Army Air Force, Brig. General Matthew Braman, told the Senat Commerce, last week that he was not sure whether he would give memory because it was part of the investigation, but the head of NTSB assured him ok.

January drop was the deadliest plane crash of nation From November 2001. years. But a Series of other collisions and near the failure In the months after worried carpets worse, although it remains secure as a whole.

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The associated print printers Tara Copp and Lisa Leff contributed to this report.