Trump’s Marine One again struggles to communicate with air traffic control before takeoff after similar incident this month
President Trump's helicopter had trouble communicating with air traffic control at a Washington airport on Thursday. This was the second similar communication problem this month. Controllers had to use other helicopters to relay messages.
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