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Item 1 of 2 2025年2月5日，美国弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿市罗纳德·里根华盛顿国家机场附近，救援起重机从波托马克河打捞美国鹰航5342次航班与黑鹰直升机撞河事故残骸。路透社/爱德华多·穆尼奥斯 档案照片
[1/2]2025年2月5日，美国弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿市罗纳德·里根华盛顿国家机场附近，救援起重机从波托马克河打捞美国鹰航5342次航班与黑鹰直升机撞河事故残骸。…… 购买授权，新标签页打开查看更多
华盛顿，5月18日（路透社）——美国联邦航空局局长将于周二向国会表示，该局在2025年1月美国航空支线客机与陆军直升机在里根华盛顿国家机场附近发生致命撞机事故前，未对预警信号采取行动。此次事故造成67人死亡，是美国二十多年来最严重的航空灾难。
今年1月，美国国家运输安全委员会表示，联邦航空局一系列系统性失误导致了这场毁灭性的空中相撞事故。
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“在那个悲剧性的夜晚之前，我们的空域系统已经发出了预警信号。问题不在于缺乏数据——而在于未能将数据转化为实际行动，”联邦航空局局长布莱恩·贝德福德将在提交给美国参议院商务小组委员会的书面证词中表示。“这正是我们正在紧急填补的漏洞。”
贝德福德指出，联邦航空局已采取一系列措施提升安全水平，包括在3月暂停在主要机场使用飞机与直升机之间的目视间隔规则。
联邦航空局在3月发布新规定时援引了两起近期事件，其中一起涉及美国航空一架航班与圣安东尼奥机场附近的警用直升机险些相撞。
他表示，联邦航空局正在进行一项持续的战略性全面重组，“其中包括精简领导岗位、消除阻碍透明度和信息共享的部门壁垒”。
国家运输安全委员会认定，此次撞机事故的起因是联邦航空局允许直升机在无需安全隔离措施的情况下靠近机场飞行，且未审查相关数据并落实将直升机航线从机场附近转移的建议。
自2021年以来，里根机场附近已有15200起商用客机与直升机的空中间隔违规事件，其中包括85起险些相撞事件。
2025年撞机事故发生后，联邦航空局限制了里根机场周边的直升机飞行，并对巴尔的摩、拉斯维加斯和华盛顿杜勒斯等其他机场实施了限制措施。该局还降低了里根机场的航班抵达率。
此外，美国交通部已敦促国会批准额外100亿美元资金，以推进空中交通管制系统改革。美国交通部去年已拨付125亿美元用于该项目。
“每年我们的空域要管理超过1800万次航班，搭载超过10亿人次乘客，现有系统已触及极限，”贝德福德说道。
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FAA says it failed to address warning signals before fatal 2025 Washington D.C. collision
2026-05-18 16:07:29 UTC / Reuters
By David Shepardson
May 18, 2026 4:07 PM UTC Updated 3 hours ago
Item 1 of 2 A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the river, by the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., February 5, 2025. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
[1/2]A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the river, by the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., February 5, 2025. … Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tabRead more
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) – The head of the Federal Aviation Administration will tell Congress on Tuesday the agency failed to act on warnings prior to the January 2025 fatal collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army helicopter that killed 67 people near Reagan Washington National Airport.
In January, the National Transportation Safety Board said a series of systemic failures by the Federal Aviation Administration led to a devastating mid-air collision that was the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster in more than two decades.
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“Our airspace system was providing warning signals prior to that tragic evening. The issue was not a lack of data — it was a failure to translate that data into action,” FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford will tell a U.S. Senate Commerce subcommittee in written testimony. “That is the gap we are urgently closing.”
Bedford noted the FAA has taken a series of steps to improve safety, including in March suspending use of visual separation between airplanes and helicopters at major airports.
The FAA in March cited two recent incidents in issuing the new rules including a near miss involving an American Airlines flight and police helicopter near the San Antonio airport.
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He said there is an ongoing strategic sweeping reorganization of the FAA “that includes streamlining leadership roles (and) eliminating silos which hinder transparency and information sharing.”
The NTSB determined the collision was caused by the FAA’s decision to allow helicopters to travel close to the airport without safeguards to separate them from airplanes, and its failure to review data and act on recommendations to move helicopter traffic away from the airport.
Since 2021, there have been 15,200 air separation incidents near Reagan airport between commercial airplanes and helicopters, including 85 close-call events.
After the 2025 collision, the FAA restricted helicopter traffic around Reagan Airport and imposed restrictions at other airports including Baltimore, Las Vegas and Washington Dulles. It also reduced the arrival rate for planes at Reagan.
Separately, the U.S. Department of Transportation has urged Congress to approve another $10 billion to continue an air traffic control overhaul after awarding $12.5 billion last year.
“With more than 18,000,000 flights managed and over one billion passenger movements traveling across our skies annually, our current system has reached its limits,” Bedford said.
Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington; Editing by Bill Berkrot
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