When senators grilled the Federal Aviation Administration last week about how the agency could have let the number of close calls between a helicopter and commercial jetliner occur at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport,

A close call between a Delta passenger plane and Air Force jets triggered a collision warning near Reagan National Airport, just two months after the fatal collision there.

An air traffic controller at a Washington D.C. airport has been charged with assault and battery following a brawl in the control tower. Damon Marsalis Gaines, 39, was charged over the scrap with colleagues at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on March 27.