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An air traffic controller managing helicopter and airplane traffic on the night of the Potomac River mid-air collision in January should have informed the crew of the passenger jet an Army helicopter was heading toward their flight, the FAA said Thursday, acknowledging for the first time a possible control tower era on the night of the collision that killed 67 people.

Nick Fuller, the FAA’s acting deputy chief operating officer of operations, answered affirmatively when asked by National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy if the controller should have been informed there was a helicopter in its path.

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