The Army has suspended helicopter flights into and around the Pentagon after an incident last week involving a military helicopter flying close to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) that resulted in air traffic control aborting the landings of two commercial flights.
The May 5 suspension, which will affect helicopter operations out of the 12th Aviation Battalion, was confirmed to The Epoch Times by a Department of Defense official on Monday.
That battalion is tasked with evacuating top political officials in cases of emergency.
In late January, one of its Black Hawk helicopters was involved in the fatal midair collision with a commercial jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which killed all 67 people on board both aircraft….