In the wake of the Washington, D.C., air disaster Wednesday which claimed 67 lives, scrutiny immediately fell upon air-traffic control readiness, given that a mid-air collision was involved.
Indeed, as The Washington Post reported, one controller was handling both airliner and helicopter traffic at Reagan National Airport when American Eagle Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided, something a source said was “not normal.”
Furthermore, the crash came just days after President Donald Trump signed an order rescinding an FAA initiative begun during the Obama years that prioritized hiring those with “targeted disabilities,” including “severe physical disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, and intellec …