Federal detectives have actually raised concerns of a potential for another deadly airplane crash at Reagan National Airport, after a midair collision previously this year killed 67.

The National Transportation Safety Board provided an update on their investigation into the reason for the disaster which occurred on January 29 in Washington.

An American Airlines jetliner and a Black Hawk military helicopter collided in midair over the Potomac River, killing everybody on board both airplanes.

As part of a preliminary report launched on Tuesday, investigators raised concerns of more crashes including helicopters at the airport.

NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy stated: ‘We stay worried about the substantial capacity for future mid-air crash at DCA.’

Her issues focus on Transport Secretary Sean Duffy moving to restrict helicopter traffic around the area, but that is set to stop at the end of the month.

When police, medical or governmental transportation helicopters must utilize the area civilian aircrafts are stopped from remaining in the exact same location.

Homendy said the NTSB is now recommending that the FAA find a ‘irreversible solution’ for alternate routes for helicopters when two of the airport’s runways are in usage.

Emergency units react after a passenger airplane hit a helicopter in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia

Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) Jennifer Homendy speaks to press reporters about the 29 January mid-air collision

It was likewise revealed on Tuesday that there was cautioning check in the lead up to the fatal disaster.

Those penetrating the crash went through 944,179 operations between October 2021 and December 2024.

It was discovered that 15,214 ‘near-miss occasions’ of airplanes getting signals about helicopters remaining in close distance in between October 2021 and December 2024.

The NTSB also said that there were 85 cases where 2 aircraft where laterally split by less than 1,500 feet, and a vertical separation of less than 200 feet.

Homendy added: ‘That information from October 2021 through December 2024, (the FAA) could have utilized that details at any time to figure out that we have a trend here and a problem here, and looked at that route