A Federal Aviation Administration official testified Thursday that the control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was close to being fully staffed on the night of a deadly collision between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger aircraft in January, but a contractor said he found two years ago that staffing was “not necessarily healthy” at the facility.
Nick Fuller, an FAA deputy chief operating officer for air traffic, told National Transportation Safety Board investigators that the night of the January crash, the tower had 26 of the 28 controllers’ positions filled, reports Politico.
One controller was handling the airport’s helicopter and airplane traffic at the same time, he further said, adding that it was not unusual for that to happen, except the transition took place earlier that day than was typical.
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