2026年3月18日 美国东部时间下午1:34 / 路透社
图片说明：2025年2月4日，在美国弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的罗纳德·里根华盛顿国家机场附近，美国之鹰5342航班与一架黑鹰直升机相撞坠入波托马克河后，日出时分的波托马克河景色。路透社/Eduardo Munoz/资料图片 购买使用许可（opens new tab）
华盛顿，3月18日（路透社） – 美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）周三表示，将收紧直升机安全规定，并暂停主要机场附近飞机与直升机之间的目视分离操作。
这一公告是在2025年1月美国航空公司（AAL.O，opens new tab）一架支线喷气机与军用直升机发生空中相撞事故导致67人死亡之后发布的。FAA在制定新规定时引用了两起近期事件，其中包括美国航空公司航班与圣安东尼奥机场附近警用直升机险些相撞的事件。
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FAA表示，当时直升机和飞机的航线呈交叉状，直升机向左转弯以避让美国航空公司航班。
美国航空公司尚未立即置评。
3月2日，一架比奇99飞机在加利福尼亚州南部伯班克机场被批准降落时，一架直升机正从最终进近航道飞过。飞机和直升机航线交叉，直升机转向避让比奇99飞机。
新规定要求在机场关键空域暂停目视分离。
FAA称：”当直升机穿越机场进港或离港航线时，空中交通管制员将使用雷达确保飞机保持特定的横向或垂直距离。”
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FAA局长布莱恩·贝德福德（Bryan Bedford）表示，经过为期一年的审查发现，在高流量空域，目视分离作为安全措施已不足以保障安全。
贝德福德称：”我们发现，对飞行员‘目视避让’操作的过度依赖导致了涉及直升机和飞机的安全事件。”
2025年相撞事故后，FAA已限制里根华盛顿国家机场周边的直升机流量，并在包括巴尔的摩、拉斯维加斯和华盛顿杜勒斯机场在内的其他机场实施了限制措施。
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US FAA tightens helicopter safety rules near major airports
March 18, 2026 1:34 PM UTC / Reuters
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A view shows the Potomac River at sunrise, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the Potomac River, by the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., February 4, 2025. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration is tightening helicopter safety rules and will suspend use of visual separation between airplanes and helicopters near major airports, it said on Wednesday.
The announcement follows the January 2025 mid-air collision between an American Airlines (AAL.O), opens new tab regional jet and army helicopter that killed 67 people. The FAA 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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The helicopter and aircraft were on converging courses when the helicopter made a left turn to avoid the American Airlines flight, the FAA said.
American Airlines did not immediately comment.
On March 2, a Beechcraft 99 was cleared to land at Burbank Airport in southern California as a helicopter was flying through the final approach path. The aircraft were on converging courses when the helicopter turned to avoid the Beechcraft.
The new requirement suspends visual separation in key airspace near airports.
“Where helicopters cross airport arrival or departure paths, air traffic controllers will use radar to keep the aircraft specific lateral or vertical distances apart,” the FAA said.
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FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said a year-long review revealed that for high-traffic areas, visual separation was not enough of a safety tool.
“We identified an overreliance on pilot ‘see and avoid’ operations that contribute to safety events involving helicopters and airplanes,” Bedford said.
After the 2025 collision, the FAA restricted helicopter traffic around Reagan Washington National Airport and has imposed restrictions at other airports including Baltimore, Las Vegas and Washington Dulles.
Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Emelia Sithole-Matarise
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