{"id":828721,"date":"2025-02-21T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/washington-plane-crash-questions-arise-over-understaffing-at-control-tower\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:12:11","slug":"washington-plane-crash-questions-arise-over-understaffing-at-control-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/washington-plane-crash-questions-arise-over-understaffing-at-control-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington plane crash: questions arise over understaffing at control tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One controller reportedly handled arrivals and departures, and also helicopter traffic \u2013 a job usually done by two peopleWashington DC plane crash \u2013 latest updatesFirst confirmed victims include figure-skating championsA collision on Wednesday between an American Airlines jet and a US military helicopter near Washington DC killed all 67 people onboard both aircraft and sparked questions over whether understaffing in an air traffic control tower played a role in the United States\u2019 worst aviation disaster in years.As it approached Reagan National airport around 9pm&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/30\/washington-plane-crash-no-survivors\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Chris Stein and Joseph Gedeon in Washington, Oliver Milman in New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One controller reportedly handled arrivals and departures, and also helicopter traffic \u2013 a job usually done by two peopleWashington DC plane crash \u2013 latest updatesFirst confirmed victims include figure-skating championsA collision on Wednesday between an American Airlines jet and a US military helicopter near Washington DC killed all 67 people onboard both aircraft and sparked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":828722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22834,192,2859],"tags":[6064,6702],"class_list":{"0":"post-828721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plane","8":"category-sports","9":"category-washington","10":"tag-plane","11":"tag-washington"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}