The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) held a hearing Tuesday into the midair collision over the Potomac River that killed 67 people in Washington D.C. one year ago. Third, air traffic control failed to issue a safety alert even as a conflict developed between the two aircraft. On January 29, 2025, American Airlines Flight 5342, a Bombardier CRJ700 operated under the American Eagle brand, was flying a scheduled service from Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Kansas to Washington Reagan National Airport. The hearing also revealed the intolerable stress placed on air traffic controllers in a chronically understaffed tower. At the time of the crash, local control and the position responsible for monitoring helicopter traffic had been combined, even as traffic levels were increasing in the minutes before impact.