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Why is this in uncensored?
wasn’t sure if it should be in red loft.
This is pretty major local news whatever the aircraft are.
Major news period. Man we haven’t had a commercial plane crash in a really long time
It's hard to imagine a military aircraft could cross that airspace without any careful thought of commercial air traffic.
the atc audio has the controllers telling the helicopter to fly behind the crj
From what I’m reading it’s common for the military helicopters to be flying around there. Seems less than optimal.
Right??How could they have missed so badly?? It’s not like they weren’t aware the plane was right flipppin there
all just speculation at this point, but in reading the aviation thread on reddit some are suggesting that it could have confused the AA flight with another CRJ behind it, or that it could have had its nose up and not seen the CRJ. The NTSB will figure it out in due time.
Details about the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter’s final location indicated that it was not on its approved route and flying higher above the ground as it traversed the busy airspace just outside the nation’s capital, according to four people briefed on the matter but not authorized to speak publicly.The Army Black Hawk helicopter was supposed to be flying in a different location and lower to the ground as it traversed the busy Reagan National airspace, the people said.
The internal F.A.A. report, which was reviewed by The New York Times, said the controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity on Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways — jobs typically assigned to two different controllers. A supervisor combined those duties sometime before 9:30 p.m. and allowed one controller to leave, according to a person briefed on the staffing, who was not authorized to speak publicly
I broke out most of the discussion of political aspects of the crash into "politics." I don't consider the last post regarding the flight path of the helicopter and a non-political person deciding to send home the second controller early to be political. Just