Reuters
• David Shepardson
Marine One came within less than a mile of an Envoy Air passenger flight departing Reagan Washington National Airport after air traffic control failed to halt commercial traffic. The FAA cited “broken and unreadable” communications with the helicopter; the incident follows January’s crash that killed 67 people.
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