The FAA will now bring air traffic at Reagan Washington National Airport to a complete stop whenever the president flies nearby on Marine One.

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal midair collision near Washington.

The wife of a Connecticut man who died in last month’s collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter in Washington, D.C, has filed what are believed to be the first legal claims over the crash that killed 67 people.