On CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) spoke about DCA airport after two planes were forced to abort landings due to Black Hawk helicopters flying near its airspace.
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00:00I want to ask you about what happened in your state Thursday, your Commonwealth rather, on Thursday at Reagan National Airport.
00:04Two aborted landings of passenger jets.
00:08A U.S. Army helicopter was flying nearby from the exact same unit as the helicopter that tragically crashed into the American Airlines jet in January, killing 67 people.
00:17What can you tell us about what happened Thursday?
00:19Is it safe to fly into Reagan National Airport?
00:22I'm still flying in and out, but I have to tell you, the fact that this still happens,
00:28the fact that the Pentagon and the FAA and the folks at National have not been able to coordinate this.
00:35But again, I think this is a reflection.
00:37When you randomly fire folks at the FAA, when you push people out of air traffic controllers where we're already 3,000 people short,
00:48you are going to take what has been historically the safest airspace in the world, the American airspace.
00:55And there's not a day that goes by that I don't hear people are concerned.
00:59And I've got a lot of constituents now who say, I'm just not sure I'm going to be willing to fly out of Reagan.