Kansas Senator Jerry Moran will be leading a subcommittee hearing Thursday to look at preliminary findings from the crash of a Wichita flight to Washington, D.C. in January. The crash of an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter resulted in the deaths of 67 people. Moran chairs the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation, Space, and Innovation, and it will have a hearing at 9 a.m. Central time to examine the findings from the National Transportation Safety Board on the crash. The subcommittee will hear testimony from NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy, along with acting FAA administrator Chris Rocheleau, and Brigadier General Matthew Braman, director of U.S. Army Aviation. Family members of the victims will also attend the hearing. In a 20-page preliminary report released on March 11, the NTSB also made several recommendations including a continued ban on helicopter traffic over a four-mile stretch over the Potomac River. The ban went into effect shortly after the January 29th crash when American Airlines PSA Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter collided at night.
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