Nearly eight months after a deadly collision occurred near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., the Transportation Department’s Office of Inspector General announced Friday that it would open a probe into the Federal Aviation Administration’s handling of the airspace around the international airport.

The inciting incident for the investigation was the midair crash that occurred this January when a US Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines regional jet, killing 67 people . But, per the IG’s announcement, that was just one of many near-disasters that have occurred at their airport in recent years. The National Transportation Safety Board found 15,000 close-proximity incidents happened in the airport’s airspace between October 2021 and D

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