Staffing issues may have played a role in a deadly crash at Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) on Wednesday night.
An internal Federal Aviation Administration report claimed that one air traffic controller in DCA's tower was manning both helicopter traffic and the airport's takeoffs and landings at the time of a collision between an American Airlines flight and a helicopter. Per the FAA report obtained by the New York Times, staffing at the D.C. aviation hub was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic.”
