Air traffic congestion in Washington DC has been a topic of political discussion, even before the crash, former Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for the Air Force Retired Brigadier General John Teichert says.
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00:00And just picking up on what you were saying about how congested the skies are
00:04above the US capital, do you think this is likely to perhaps trigger a rethink in terms of air
00:11traffic safety precautions, air traffic safety norms in that area, given that the DC area does
00:18have three major airports, at least within a very short distance of each other?
00:23It does, Tom, and there have already been talks in the political sphere before this accident
00:28about concerns of congestion at Reagan National Airport. I suspect this is going to re-spark some
00:35of those concerns. But in almost all of these investigations, there are process,
00:40policy, and procedural changes that will stem after the root cause is determined to try to
00:47figure out what is the best way to make sure in this very congested airspace, as you described,
00:52that something like this doesn't happen again, and that we're managing the volume of traffic
00:57in and out of DC to make sure that we mitigate the chance of this type of thing happening again.