NEWARK, New Jersey, Aug 11 (Reuters) – U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Tuesday he is working to fix telecom issues flagged after a military helicopter carrying President Donald Trump last week came too close to a passenger jet departing Reagan Washington National Airport.
The incident raised serious questions about why the passenger airplane was allowed to depart while Marine One was nearby, a time when commercial traffic is typically halted.
Following a January 2025 crash between a military helicopter and a commercial jet that killed 67 people, the FAA barred mixed helicopter and jet traffic around the airport.
(Reporting By Doyinsola Oladipo in Newark and Allison Lampert in Montreal; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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