Hotline connecting Pentagon, DC airport controllers inoperable since 2022

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hotline connecting the Pentagon and Federal Aviation Administration aerial postulation controllers astatine Reagan Washington National Airport has been inoperable since March 2022, an FAA authoritative told a Senate committee connected Wednesday.

The U.S. Army said May 5 it was suspending chopper grooming flights successful the vicinity of the Pentagon aft 2 rider hose flights were forced to abort landings astatine Reagan due to the fact that a Black Hawk chopper was flying nearby. Franklin McIntosh, the FAA's lawman caput of aerial postulation control, told the Senate Commerce Committee, said the bureau would not let the Pentagon to resume the chopper flights until the hotline is fixed.

(Reporting by David Shepardson)