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I'm Tracy Mumford.
Today's Friday, January 31st.
Here's what we're covering.
Clues are coming to light from the moments before a plane and a helicopter collided near D.C.
this week, and they suggest that multiple layers of the U.S.
aviation safety system failed.
The army helicopter may have been flying outside its approved flight path by as much as half a mile
and at a higher elevation than it should have been.
And the air traffic controller was juggling two jobs at once.
Typically, there would have been one controller for helicopter traffic and another one for plane traffic.
After reviewing recordings of the communications that night,