Blackhawk was out of position. The CRJ was on a known approach trajectory.
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Commercial Flight Collides with Helicopter Over Potomac
- Thread starter Stampede
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I know you guys will be heart broken to learn that of all the things I'm an expert on.. air traffic control and piloting aircrafts are not one of them so I will be offering no retarded opinions on this one.
But I'm pretty sure Iran was involved.
But I'm pretty sure Iran was involved.
Dichotomy of your statement is glaring….!
There will always be slow movers crossing your arrival and departure routes for legitimate reasons. It's up to ATC to properly sequence and separate aircraft. That doesn't mean that it wasn't pilot error and they were in the wrong place, and due to it being dark, ATC couldn't see that due to all of the ambient lighting. Not enough information to know yet.
Guess it may have easily been a small private aircraft, but then the two would have been on the same frequency as far as radio traffic.
Tower was in contact with bold the chopper and the jet, tower told the chopper to go behind the jet. I would have to say that the chopper pilots had night vison on and got blinded by the landing lights. We will see what happens after the investigations. SAD
If that's the case, I guess it would be easy for the helo pilot to mis-identify the jet to fly behind, and put himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, moving at a couple hundred knots.
A man has to know his limitations.....
