FAA opens probe on why flights approaching Ronald Reagan airport received false alerts of nearby aircraft

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating wherefore flights approaching Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport received alerts astir different imaginable craft adjacent contempt nary being contiguous successful the area. 

In a connection to Fox News Digital, the FAA said respective formation crews received the alerts.

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A JetBlue Airlines Airbus A320 pitchy flies past the U.S. Capitol dome arsenic it comes successful for a landing astatine Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport connected Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"Several formation crews inbound to Reagan Washington National Airport received onboard alerts Saturday indicating different craft was adjacent erstwhile nary different craft were successful the area," the FAA said. "Some of the crews executed go-arounds arsenic a effect of the alerts."

"The FAA is investigating wherefore the alerts occurred," the bureau added. 

The FAA didn't specify what airlines received the alerts.

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Rescue and salvage crews with a crane enactment adjacent the wreckage of an American Airlines pitchy successful the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, successful Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The probe comes amid a bid of information incidents and a week aft an American Airlines formation arriving astatine Ronald Reagan airdrome successful Arlington, Virginia, was forced to abort a landing successful an effort to debar different aircraft. 

Investigators are inactive probing the deadly Jan. 29 midair collision betwixt an American Airlines level and a U.S. Army Black Hawk chopper implicit the Potomac River adjacent Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that killed dozens of people. 

Days aft that, a Medevac pitchy crashed successful Philadelphia, which near 7 dead. 

Investigators enactment the country aft a tiny level crashed successful Philadelphia, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025.  (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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In February, a Delta Air Lines formation crashed portion landing successful Toronto, flipping upside down. All 80 radical connected committee survived.