FAA investigates air ‘safety incident’ involving Trump’s Marine One

Controllers allegedly failed to halt flights, leading to a ‘loss of separation’ with a departing passenger jet An air “safety incident” in which Donald Trump’s Marine One helicopter came closer than permitted to another aircraft over Washington DC is under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Air traffic controllers are believed to have mistakenly failed to halt commercial flights at Ronald Reagan national airport in northern Virginia on Tuesday afternoon when the milit...

By Richard Luscombe and agencies

FAA investigating possible violation of safety protocol involving Trump, Marine One

The FAA is reviewing a loss of separation between a commercial plane departing Reagan National Airport and Marine One carrying Trump to Los Angeles.

FAA says it is investigating Trump helicopter safety incident in Washington

FAA is investigating an air-traffic safety incident involving Marine One, the helicopter carrying President Trump.

Trump was on Marine One when it was involved in an ‘air-safety incident’ above DC skies, FAA says

Federal aviation officials are investigating after the president’s helicopter took off before commercial flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were halted

By Rhian Lubin

FAA Probing Safety Incident In D.C. Involving President’s Marine One Helicopter

The presidential helicopter was involved in a so-called “loss of standard separation,” which requires aircraft to be at least 1.5 miles horizontally and 500 feet vertically away.

By Siladitya Ray, Forbes Staff

FAA to investigate after Trump Marine One safety incident in Washington

"The FAA is investigating a safety incident involving Marine One but it didn’t appear to be a dangerous close call and the aircraft weren’t apparently converging," the FAA said.

FAA investigates Trump helicopter airspace incident near Reagan National