The Federal Aviation Administration is meeting with Pentagon officials Thursday as the agency is considering slapping new restrictions on military helicopter flights near Reagan National Airport.

A police helicopter conducting a search on the George Washington Memorial Parkway forced three flights to make a second approach at Regan National Airport on Sunday morning.According to the U.S. Park Police,

Due to two near miss incidents near Reagan National Airport in Arlington last week, the Army has pulled all military aircraft flights out of the airspace for the foreseeable future.

The Jan. 29 collision over the Potomac River in Washington, DC — which preliminary reports have blamed on the military Black Hawk flying too high — was the deadliest US air disaster since 2001, and caused officials to change the flight path of helicopters near the airport.

A hotline between military and civilian air traffic controllers in Washington, D.C., that hasn’t worked for more than three years may have contributed to another near miss shortly after the U.S. Army resumed flying helicopters in the area for the first time since January’s deadly midair collision between a passenger jet and a Black Hawk

In January, American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided while attempting to land at DCA. All 64 people on the American Airlines flight were killed, as well as the three people on the helicopter. RELATED: TIMELINE: What led to ...

The incident occurred "in an area where air traffic controllers do not communicate with flight crews," the FAA said in a statement shared with PEOPLE