WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)-Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation, Space and Innovation-released the following statement after the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued its final report on the tragic DCA mid-air collision in January of last year:
"Many of the findings in this report on the DCA mid-air collision point to issues that have persisted for years-and they are issues I've been sounding the alarm on for years. There is an unacceptable culture of complacency at the FAA, and the agency's failure to heed those alarms meant it was always a matter of when-not if-one of the near misses at DCA would become a deadl...