FAA investigating possible violation of safety protocol involving Trump, Marine One

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it is reviewing a imaginable usurpation of a caller information protocol aft a Tuesday incidental involving a commercialized level and the Marine One chopper with President Donald Trump connected board, Fox News Digital confirmed.

The incidental occurred Tuesday erstwhile a commercialized level took disconnected from Reagan International Airport astatine the aforesaid clip that Trump was departing the White House connected Marine One, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The White House said Trump was ne'er successful immoderate danger.

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President Donald Trump stepped disconnected Marine One to committee Air Force One astatine Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, connected Aug. 4, 2026. (Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

"Marine One flights are piloted by immoderate of the champion aviators successful the world, and astatine nary constituent was the President successful harm’s way," White House spokesperson Kush Desai told Fox News successful a statement.

The FAA, successful a connection to Fox News Digital, reiterated the White House's constituent astir the president's safety.

"Based connected our preliminary information review, determination was momentary nonaccomplishment of separation aft which the craft continued to determination distant from 1 another. The aerial postulation controller was successful interaction with some the commercialized aviator and Marine One aviator during the nonaccomplishment of separation. As the White House has said, the President was ne'er successful danger. We are continuing to reappraisal the incidental and volition instrumentality immoderate due corrective actions based connected our findings," the connection read.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks aft a sojourn to the FAA Air Traffic Control Academy successful Oklahoma City wherever helium toured the grooming halfway and met with instructors and aerial postulation controller students connected Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (USA Today Network via Reuters Connect)

A nonaccomplishment of separation is simply a breach of FAA rules that stipulate that aircrafts astatine the aforesaid tallness indispensable beryllium astatine slightest 3 miles isolated if they are wrong 40 miles of an Airport Surveillance Radar (ASR) antenna.

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Trump was departing the White House for a planned travel to Los Angeles erstwhile the incidental occurred.

President Donald Trump waves arsenic helium walks to committee Marine One en way to Joint Base Andrews from the Ellipse adjacent the White House connected Aug. 4, 2026, successful Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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When contacted for comment, the U.S. Secret Service referred Fox News to the White House and FAA's comments.

Fox News' Patrick Ward contributed to this post.