Commercial Flight Collides with Helicopter Over Potomac

[FLcracker]

You are correct. This would have been a hard VFR flight. The bottom line is ATC doesn’t fly the aircraft or die when ATC screws up. Flying over water at night could have induced vertigo here. That usually results in flying in to the water.

With all due respect, I can understand vertigo if flying out to sea at night, where there are no lights. But the Potomac has lights all along that urban landscape…?? That would appear to me to be enough hard ground data to assist the brain with navigation (VFR)? Pilots had been following the river for miles previously during his flight.

 

[FLcracker]

This all happens very fast.

Yep. It will take a while to understand how the different components came together as they did.

 

[mfoster]

Prayers for the families

 

[Fear Itself]

That’s the dumbest **** I have ever read. Delete that.

Done

Wasn't trying to spread conjecture
Apologies

 

[thevalueman]

maybe this wasn't "accidental"......
any info on the helicopter pilot??

 

[alexs2006]

Man this is sad..

 

[Talos]

maybe this wasn't "accidental"......
any info on the helicopter pilot??

My thoughts exactly. Who was of importance on the aircrafts?

 

[rightway1974]

Never flown and never will. Just more proof I made the right decision.

 

[Plinker66]

If the standard flight paths allow helicopters to cross airport plane landing flight paths at or near the same altitude as the landing planes then the standard flight paths should be changed.

 

[Edog537]

maybe this wasn't "accidental"......
any info on the helicopter pilot??

Really. Would have to be the best Helo pilot I ever saw to time that and pull it off intentionally. Most Army Helo pilots can’t land on a ship in broad daylight. Ask me how I know.