Hollywood airport favored by celebrities could be site of next plane disaster: officials

Air proscription information officials are sounding alarms astir imaginable information issues astatine Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR) successful the Los Angeles area.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) held a gathering past week related to the collision successful January 2025 of an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk chopper successful the Potomac River.

At the hearing, NTSB committee seat Jennifer Homendy spoke astir airspaces of concern, specifically mentioning the Hollywood airport.

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"Burbank is 1 [airport] wherever commercialized airlines person called maine to accidental the adjacent midair [collision] is going to beryllium astatine Burbank, and cipher astatine the FAA is paying attraction to us," said Homendy, according to Fox 11 and different sources. 

She added, "The FAA has to guarantee safety. That is their job."

A caller National Transportation Safety Board gathering revealed superior information concerns astir Hollywood Burbank Airport, shown above. (Google Maps)

Between January to November of past year, 862,825 passengers passed done the Hollywood Burbank Airport — for a 12.08% summation from 2024, according to airdrome data.

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Following the deadly Potomac River clang past year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a rotorcraft information roundtable media readout highlighting intimately spaced airports.

"We’re besides looking astatine the postulation flows astir Hollywood Burbank Airport and Van Nuys Airport successful the Los Angeles area," according to the readout.

"Burbank is 1 [airport] wherever commercialized airlines person called maine to accidental the adjacent midair [collision] is going to beryllium astatine Burbank, and cipher astatine the FAA is paying attraction to us," said the NTSB committee seat astatine a caller hearing.  (REUTERS/Daniel Cole)

"They’re little than 10 miles apart, each service a wide premix of aircraft, and they person intimately spaced accomplishment and departure paths," it continued.

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The FAA temporarily lowered Van Nuys' postulation signifier successful February by 200 feet, successful bid to "reduce conflicts with craft landing astatine Burbank," it said successful a statement, based connected investigation by the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS).

In January 2025, an Army Black Hawk chopper collided midair with an American Airlines rider level near Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport, killing 64 people.  (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

Van Nuys Airport is operated by the Los Angeles metropolis government, which besides operates Los Angeles International Airport, and is dedicated to non-commercial aerial travel.

The Jan. 29 clang successful 2025 progressive an Army Black Hawk chopper that collided midair with an American Airlines rider level near Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport, killing 64 radical connected the American Eagle formation and 3 aboard the subject helicopter.

"Safety is apical precedence for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)."

In a connection Wednesday, Burbank did not specifically code the warnings from Homendy expressed astatine the hearing. Instead, it pointed to FAA efforts.

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"Once our passengers are successful planes that are taxiing and successful formation (arriving oregon departing), information is apical precedence for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)," the connection from the airdrome said, arsenic Fox 11 reported. "Safety issues related to passengers, crews and craft portion they inhabit airspace are nether the jurisdiction of the FAA."

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Fox News Digital’s Alexandra Koch contributed reporting.