Disaster American Airlines Flight Collides With Blackhawk Helicopter Over DC - Several videos shared online showed footage of the collision and the aftermath of the crash.

An American Airlines passenger plane crashed into the Potomac River after colliding midair with a black hawk helicopter over Ronald Reagan International Airport in Washington, D.C., the Federal Aviation Administration announced Wednesday (January 29) via CNN.

Several videos shared online showed footage of the collision and the aftermath of the crash.



BREAKING: American Airlines Flight 5342 has collided with a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The military aircraft, identified as PAT25, is believed to be a Priority Air Transport mission, typically designated for VIP transport operations.



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Bodies of the dead are being pulled out of the Potomac by police according to the Washington Post.

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CaliforniaRaisin said:
This is almost impossible with TCAS. Both pilots should have had shit screaming at them in the cockpit of a proximity danger. Someone REALLY fucked up (most likely the chopper pilot not enabling his transponder because military pilots are retards who think shit doesn't apply to them) or this was intentional.
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The plane was 400’ AGL configured to land. TCAS is going to be inhibited in that configuration for the plane. Responding to an RA with the threat (the ground) that close is too dangerous.
 
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CaliforniaRaisin said:
Which is fucking stupid because outside of an active warzone, there's zero reason not to turn the system on. Especially in a high traffic area. Only laziness, incompetence, or ego are the excuses.
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Starting to look like a military fuck up. See this is what happens when we start kicking out the illegals. Now who's gonna pilot our damn aircraft? John from Kansas?
Rob Wolchek said:
You got more chances winning the lottery than surviving this holy fuck
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If anyone from the plane survived this they may have just won the lottery depending on whether or not they can make a civil case out of this.
 
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I fly a fair amount, and to and fro DC sometimes, and that is fucking horrifying. Imagine your plane is just cruising in for a normal landing, and then...BAM! Out of nowhere. You'd never expect it. For most death would have been instantaneous in that fireball...for the rest, plunging into the icy water, it would gave been milliseconds of sheer terror. Shocked anyone survived at all.

Betting it was a DEI helicopter Army pilot who had shitty ratings they let fly anyway.
 
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Stationary aszs said:
RA's are inhibited but TA's are not
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What are you supposed to do with a “TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC” callout when you are circling to land and you are seconds from touchdown?

ATC cleared the MILOPS pilot to pass behind the CRJ. This is a case of a military jock not respecting the RNAV approach paths at DCA.
 
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