{"id":86149,"date":"2025-05-14T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/05\/14\/dc-military-air-traffic-control-hotline-hasnt-worked-for-over-3-years\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:22:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:22:46","slug":"dc-military-air-traffic-control-hotline-hasnt-worked-for-over-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2025\/05\/14\/dc-military-air-traffic-control-hotline-hasnt-worked-for-over-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"DC military-air traffic control hotline hasn\u2019t worked for over 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A hotline between military and civilian air traffic controllers in Washington, D.C., that hasn\u2019t worked for more than three years may have contributed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2025\/05\/05\/army-pauses-helicopter-flights-near-dc-airport-after-more-close-calls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2025\/05\/05\/army-pauses-helicopter-flights-near-dc-airport-after-more-close-calls\/\">another near miss<\/a> shortly after the U.S. Army resumed flying helicopters in the area for the first time since January\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/01\/30\/no-survivors-in-passenger-jet-army-helicopter-crash-near-dc-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2025\/01\/30\/no-survivors-in-passenger-jet-army-helicopter-crash-near-dc-officials\/\">deadly midair collision<\/a> between a passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter, Sen. Ted Cruz said at a hearing Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Federal Aviation Administration official in charge of air traffic controllers, Frank McIntosh, confirmed the agency didn\u2019t even know the hotline hadn\u2019t been working since March 2022 until after the latest near miss. He said civilian controllers still have other means of communicating with their military counterparts through landlines. Still, the FAA insists the hotline be fixed before helicopter flights resume around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense department officials didn\u2019t immediately respond to questions Wednesday about the near miss earlier this month and the steps it is taking to ensure helicopter flights in the area are safe. The FAA didn\u2019t immediately answer follow-up questions after the hearing about how that hotline was supposed to be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe developments at DCA [Reagan Airport] in its airspace are extremely concerning,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cThis committee remains laser-focused on monitoring a safe return to operations at DCA and making sure all users in the airspace are operating responsibly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army suspended all helicopter flights around Reagan airport after the latest near miss, but McIntosh said the FAA was close to ordering the Army to stop flying because of the safety concerns before it did so voluntarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe did have discussions if that was an option that we wanted to pursue,\u201d McIntosh told the Senate Commerce Committee at the hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">January\u2019s crash between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter killed 67 people \u2014 making it the deadliest plane crash on U.S. soil since 2001. The National Transportation Safety Board has said there were an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/air\/2025\/02\/14\/black-hawk-crew-in-dc-crash-may-have-missed-key-air-traffic-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/air\/2025\/02\/14\/black-hawk-crew-in-dc-crash-may-have-missed-key-air-traffic-messages\/\">alarming 85 near misses<\/a> around Reagan in the three years before the crash that should have prompted action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the crash, the FAA has tried to ensure that military helicopters never share the same airspace as planes, but controllers had to order two planes to abort their landings on May 1 because of an Army helicopter circling near the Pentagon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter the deadly crash near Reagan National Airport, FAA closed the helicopter route involved, but a lack of coordination between FAA and the Department of Defense has continued to put the flying public at risk,\u201d Sen. Tammy Duckworth said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McIntosh said the helicopter should never have entered the airspace around Reagan Airport without permission from an air traffic controller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat did not occur,\u201d he said. \u201cMy question \u2014 and I think the larger question is \u2014 is why did that not occur? Without compliance to our procedures and our policies, this is where safety drift starts to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NTSB is investigating what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to that incident, a commercial flight taking off from Reagan airport had to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/airplanes-diverted-washington-reagan-national-airport-888e2dd4e9c9d6506a37e9e6a24cfe17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/airplanes-diverted-washington-reagan-national-airport-888e2dd4e9c9d6506a37e9e6a24cfe17\">take evasive action<\/a> after coming within a few hundred feet of four military jets heading to a flyover at Arlington National Cemetery. 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