US Army pausing helicopter training flights around Pentagon

(NewsNation) — The U.S. Army is instituting a intermission of chopper grooming flights successful the vicinity of the Pentagon aft 2 commercialized flights Thursday were forced to abort landings astatine adjacent Reagan National Airport aft an Army chopper deviated from its archetypal formation plan.

"The Army's 12th Aviation Battalion has paused grooming flights successful and astir the Pentagon. There are inactive immoderate helicopters successful the area," an Army authoritative tells NewsNation.

The probe of the incidental past week is ongoing, the authoritative says.

The portion successful caller days had begun gradually resuming flights aft the January 29 midair collision of a battalion Army Black Hawk connected a nighttime grooming ngo with an American Airlines determination pitchy adjacent the airdrome killed 67 people.

Members of Congress, aviation information experts and section officials blasted the Army aft that incident, calling for an investigation.