And if you can prevent that, if you can have policies in place that save future lives, I'm going to do everything I can to make that happen. So with DCA again, that was really day number one for me. And again, We had 85 incidents in the last three years where we had really, really close calls between helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. The FAA should have known that. We should have seen those stats. Why does it take so long for the FAA to ban. You have banned the military aircraft operating within the sphere of Reagan Airport. (02:35–02:45)
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