DALLAS—Bell’s 214ST is set to become the latest legacy helicopter to go back into production to address global shortfalls in rotary-wing firefighting capability. Australia’s McDermott ...

That happened two days after an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter collided in mid air in Washington in the deadliest US air disaster in a generation.

The NTSB issued its preliminary report on the midair collision between a passenger plane and helicopter over Washington, D.C., in January.

"Why did the FAA not act on 15,000 reports of dangerous proximity? How were these helicopter routes allowed to remain when alarm bells were literally going off in the towers?" asked Senator Maria ...