A person has been charged with assault and battery following a battle in the air traffic control building at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D. C.
The fight occurred at the stressed travel gateway on March 27, air-port authorities confirmed Tuesday to CBS News. The affair was described as , a duel between people, but no more information about the circumstances that led to the encounter was given.
Air traffic controller Damon Gaines, 39, has been placed on administrative leave pending an analysis by the , Federal Aviation Administration.
The D. C. airport has been the vision of many accidents and near-misses in 2025, including a January , midair collision between an American Airlines helicopter and an Army Black Hawk helicopter , that killed 67 people.
On Friday, notice bell went off in the cockpit of a Delta Airlines plane when it , came dangerously near to an Air Force plane. On Saturday,  , a sail struck a United plane , on its method to land.
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