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Commercial Flight Collides with Helicopter Over Potomac
- Thread starter Stampede
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I heard both of them are 300 ft from landing before they cry collided. Crazy stuff. The air traffic controller must have been hungover.
Anyone else here ever even been in a Helo, chopper, helicopter as part of the flight crew?
Someone said something about ATC being responsible for spacing is 💯 wrong. The Helo is flying VFR not on goggles or IFR. When you are in VFR flight rules you are responsible for your spacing. Tower simply has to tell you where it’s at.
Read this slowly. They make have acknowledged the CRJ - they never actually saw it.
Again ATC doesn’t fly your aircraft or die when you make a mistake.
Someone said something about ATC being responsible for spacing is 💯 wrong. The Helo is flying VFR not on goggles or IFR. When you are in VFR flight rules you are responsible for your spacing. Tower simply has to tell you where it’s at.
Read this slowly. They make have acknowledged the CRJ - they never actually saw it.
Again ATC doesn’t fly your aircraft or die when you make a mistake.
If you know of a Blackhawk that flies at 200 knots don’t tell anyone else. They may think you’re day drinking.
Something stinks about this and I know nothing except that it’s been a long time since anything like this happened. The timing stinks and the loss of lives.
Me
I will wait until it unfolds, something stinks to me. I seen you posted you hours before, mine is 4700 hours and change. Does that matter, nope! I’ve seen lesser hour crew members be perfect and high hour flyers be complacent.
It’s odd that 3 aircrew members, never call Reject?
Praying for all that lost family
Charlie17
If the system is dependent on the helicopter crews’ ability to spot and then dodge landing jets while flying at high speeds in the dark with NVGs over a brightly lit city then the FAA should close Reagan to commercial traffic.
Complacency crossed my mind. I got out right as I was passing in to the complacency zone. It doesn’t matter they are all gone now. Damn dude 4700 flight hours in Helo’s you’re lucky to be alive. Can you sleep at night without someone shaking your bed and howling in your ear.
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I seriously doubt they were on goggles. Good way to die in high traffic area. Surely they weren’t that dumb.
