Local lawyer uncovers warning signs before deadly DC crash: I-Team
Attorney Jamie Lebovitz, senior partner with Nurenberg, Paris, Heller & McCarthy, has found records from that same airspace, showing about a dozen near mid-air crashes even before the recent disaster.
Last month, an American Airlines plane arriving at Reagan National Airport collided with a U.S. Army helicopter, leaving 67 people dead.
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Attorney Lebovitz has made a career of taking on the air industry over safety. He says federal records show a history of near mid-air collisions for many years involving planes and helicopters at Reagan National.
'The writing was on the wall. The warnings were there,' Lebovitz said. 'Pilots were concerned and that is one of the problems with this particular airport.'
'That should have created a very heightened necessity for the FAA to intervene,' he went on to say. 'Make sure, number one, that you have the tower staffed properly, at all times. And, if you can't staff it with the necessary personnel, then you need to do something about reducing the number of flights in and out of National. You have to do something about reducing or eliminating the number of helicopter transits.'
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The deadly crash remains under investigation.
Lebovitz points out that those earlier incidents were handled in a variety of different ways by air traffic controllers.
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