By Simmone Shah January 30, 2025 3:49 PM EST F or decades, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has considered itself the safest aviation system in the world. When an American Airlines commercial flight carrying passengers from Wichita, Ks. crashed into a military helicopter on Jan. 29, likely killing everyone on board , it was the first collision in U.S. airspace in over a decade. Mid-air collisions are even rarer—the last one in the U.S. was in 1978. The incident has renewed focus