{"id":32038,"date":"2025-01-31T13:08:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/staffing-levels-not-normal-in-control-tower-at-time-of-washington-dc-crash-report-says\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:08:23","slug":"staffing-levels-not-normal-in-control-tower-at-time-of-washington-dc-crash-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/staffing-levels-not-normal-in-control-tower-at-time-of-washington-dc-crash-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Staffing levels \u2018not normal\u2019 in control tower at time of Washington DC crash, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Initial Federal Aviation Administration report says roles of coordinating helicopter traffic and planes were combined<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/31\/washington-dc-plane-crash-live-flight-data-and-cockpit-voice-recorders-recovered-officials-say\">Washington DC plane crash \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An initial Federal Aviation Administration report obtained by US media organisations said staffing levels were \u201cnot normal for the time of day and volume of traffic\u201d before a military helicopter collided with a passenger jet in the heart of Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the separate roles of coordinating helicopter traffic and arriving and departing planes had been combined when the collision happened, the Associated Press reported. The Washington Post said two people were handling the jobs of four inside the control tower.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/31\/washington-dc-crash-initial-report-staffing-levels-not-normal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial Federal Aviation Administration report says roles of coordinating helicopter traffic and planes were combined Washington DC plane crash \u2013 latest updates An initial Federal Aviation Administration report obtained by US media organisations said staffing levels were \u201cnot normal for the time of day and volume of traffic\u201d before a military helicopter collided with a &#8230; <a title=\"Staffing levels \u2018not normal\u2019 in control tower at time of Washington DC crash, report says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/staffing-levels-not-normal-in-control-tower-at-time-of-washington-dc-crash-report-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Staffing levels \u2018not normal\u2019 in control tower at time of Washington DC crash, report says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}