On May 15th, according to The Washington Post, an official from the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that the hotline connecting air traffic controllers at Reagan National Airport in Washington with their counterparts at the Department of Defense has been “unavailable” since March 2022. The Deputy Director and Head of Air Traffic Management of the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States stated during a Senate hearing that the aviation department only discovered this issue earlier this month after two planes were forced to interrupt their landing procedures due to a US Army helicopter flying to the Department of Defense.
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