A fight broke out between two air traffic controllers inside the tower at Reagan National Airport on Thursday. According to a Daily Mail report, the controllers were on duty at the time.
After a heated argument, one controller threw a punch at the other, per the report, which cited unnamed sources. Others intervened to break up the fight, but blood was found on a console in the tower’s cab.
“That facility is out of control. People are cracking because of what happened in January,” one source told the Daily Mail, referring to the D.C. airport’s tower.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating the fight. It occurred just months after the Jan. 29 midair collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and PSA Airlines flight 5342 near the airport.
Between October 2021 and December 2024, there were 15,214 “occurrences” between commercial airplanes and helicopters near Reagan National, the NTSB said in its preliminary report on the accident.
