{"id":42909,"date":"2026-01-28T00:46:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=42909"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:46:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:46:44","slug":"f-a-a-ignored-safety-concerns-prior-to-collision-over-potomac-n-t-s-b-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=42909","title":{"rendered":"F.A.A. Ignored Safety Concerns Prior to Collision Over Potomac, N.T.S.B. Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: F.A.A. Ignored Safety Concerns Prior to Collision Over Potomac, N.T.S.B. Says<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">F.A.A. Ignored Safety Concerns Prior to Collision Over Potomac, N.T.S.B. Says<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">The National Transportation Safety Board said that a \u201cmultitude of errors\u201d led to the collision between a military helicopter and a commercial jet, killing 67 people last January.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cWe have an entire tower who took it upon themselves to try to raise concerns over and over and over and over again, only to get squashed by management and everybody above them within F.A.A., where they set up for failure.\u201d \u201cThey were not adequately prepared to do the jobs they were assigned to do.\u201d \u201cI imagine there will be some difficult moments today for all of us as we try to provide answers to how a multitude of errors led to this tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">The National Transportation Safety Board said that a \u201cmultitude of errors\u201d led to the collision between a military helicopter and a commercial jet, killing 67 people last January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Meg Felling<\/p>\n<p>January 27, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: F.A.A. Ignored Safety Concerns Prior to Collision Over Potomac, N.T.S.B. Says transcript Back transcript F.A.A. Ignored Safety Concerns Prior to Collision Over Potomac, N.T.S.B. Says The National Transportation Safety Board said that a \u201cmultitude of errors\u201d led to the collision between a military helicopter and a commercial jet, killing 67 people last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[5140,2974,22527,22528,17366,223,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-42909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-collision","9":"tag-concerns","10":"tag-f-a-a","11":"tag-n-t-s-b","12":"tag-potomac","13":"tag-prior","14":"tag-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}