For more than 15 years, pilots, controllers and reams of aviation data detected at least one near mid air collision each and every month at national Airport. In 2013, after a helicopter and plane on approach to DCA nearly crashed into each other, controllers and helicopter operators formed a working group to improve coordination in the local airspace. That group met often and at some point even elevated recommendations to revise and improve mapped flight routes to show known hotspots. But their suggestions were ignored. (01:08–01:22)
CLAIM
Asserts that a working group was formed in 2013 to improve airspace coordination after a near-crash incident.
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