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White House construction may have disrupted Trump helicopter’s radio during close call with Envoy jet: Report

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White House construction may have disrupted Marine One radio calls, leading to a close encounter with an Envoy Air passenger jet.. Photographer: Al Drago/The Washington Post/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

White House construction played a role in a radio failure that brought Donald Trump’s Marine One helicopter and an Envoy Air passenger jet too close to each other near Reagan on August 4, investigators said Thursday. Air traffic controllers did not hear Marine One’s three-minute warning before takeoff, so they cleared the airline plane to … Read more

Planes, helicopters, crews: How Europe is scrambling to contain a record wildfire season

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Planes, helicopters, crews: How Europe is scrambling to contain a record wildfire season

Romanian firefighters work to prevent a wildfire from reigniting as they tackle smoldering ground following a fire in the Deliblato Sands nature reserve in Serbia. (Photo: Reuters) Wildfires are stretching firefighting capacity across Europe, forcing countries to move aircraft, helicopters and crews across borders as several blazes burn at the same time. Serbia is using … Read more