US Army and FAA in the hot seat publicly for the first time since January’s fatal midair collision

Family members of some of the 67 people killed in January’s midair collision in Washington listened to the US Army and Federal Aviation Administration take fiery questions from lawmakers for the first time Thursday at a Senate subcommittee hearing on the preliminary findings of the accident.

“I’m glad that something’s being done about it now,” said Dailey Crafton, whose brother, Casey, was killed. “But you know, it’s too little, too late for those of us who had family members on that plane.”

Previously, investigators uncovered 15,214 “near miss events” between 2021 and 2024 where aircraft were within one nautical mile of each other, with a vertical separation of less than 400 feet. There were also 85 cases where aircraft were less than 1,500 feet apart, with a vertical separation of less than 200 feet, according to the NTSB.

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