Legislation proposing to return air traffic around Reagan National Airport to how it was handled before the devastating midair collision angered the National Transportation Safety Board Wednesday.

The government restricted air traffic around DCA following the collision of a Black Hawk military helicopter with an American Airlines flight in the air above the Potomac River in January. Sixty-seven people died.

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The National Defense Authorization Act introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives is a 3,000-page bill that includes language relaxing those restrictions and returning planes and helicopters to mixing closely around the airport as they did before the crash.

NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy fumed as she reac

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