A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) worker operating at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) beyond Washington, D.C. was lately billed over a work environment run-in, authorities claimed.
Upper Marlboro, Maryland, local Damon Marsalis Gaines, 38, was billed with attack and battery in regard to the case. POLITICO reported that the suspicious operate in controller procedures.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) validated the growths to Fox News Digital, describing that the case taken place in a control tower on Thursday.
The FAA likewise validated the case to Fox News Digital.
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A group of birds flies over the control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport on February 3, 2025, in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
“The employee is on administrative leave while we investigate the matter,” an FAA agent claimed.
It’s uncertain what triggered the scuffle.
The case is just one of several relevant tales including DCA air traffic control service lately. The flight terminal has actually dealt with examination after an American Airlines airplane and an Army helicopter clashed onJan 29, eliminating 67 individuals.
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The air traffic control service tower after the American Airlines collision at Reagan National Airport. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
An FAA record later on located that the variety of personnel operating at DCA’s air control tower at the time was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic.”
On Saturday, a United Airlines airplane supposedly reached a kite while it was trying to land at DCA, though that occasion is unassociated to the attack case.
An FAA worker was jailed and billed with attack after a scuffle in air traffic control service tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg by means of Getty Images)
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Authorities are proactively checking out the claims.
