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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CaliforniaRaisin said:
Also, Call to Activism isn't entirely retarded in their take. Trump DID fire key people in aviation control and safety.


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It's still a brain dead take.

The issue wasn't about any coordination with the civilian air line or air traffic control, it was, to my knowledge, an accident cause by a military training exercise. The people affected by those policy changes weren’t related to the accident whatsoever.

If anyone should get flak, it's the army(?) for scheduling a training flight over a populated area, next to an airport, at a relatively active time of night.
 
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Several members of the US Figure Skating Team were on the plane.

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I think people may not understand how limited visibility may be, especially if the pilots are focusing on their instruments. UH60s have good forward visibility but it’s certainly not like sitting in a bubble canopy like an AH64. Apparently the pilots confirmed they saw the flight in front of them to ATC, then the crash. Based on that and the way the helicopter looks like it was wrapped up in the rear part of the plane, this might’ve been the equivalent of losing a car in your A-pillar blind spot and then getting in the other lane and sideswiping them. Of course instead of losing a mirror or door it’s a big fireball killing everyone instead. Insane helicopter pilot error if that is the case.
 
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A Distant Northern Land said:
I think people may not understand how limited visibility may be, especially if the pilots are focusing on their instruments. UH60s have good forward visibility but it’s certainly not like sitting in a bubble canopy like an AH64. Apparently the pilots confirmed they saw the flight in front of them to ATC, then the crash. Based on that and the way the helicopter looks like it was wrapped up in the rear part of the plane, this might’ve been the equivalent of losing a car in your A-pillar blind spot and then getting in the other lane and sideswiping them. Of course instead of losing a mirror or door it’s a big fireball killing everyone instead. Insane helicopter pilot error if that is the case.
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This was clearly pilot error, the helicopter was warned of the presence of the plane and did not act quick enough.

Of course the morons blame this on Trump.

Third World countries have less budget than the USA and are still able to function, a freeze on hiring in the USA doesn't mean the country collapses, those people are just so retarded.
 
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I've never flown into DCA myself, so I didn't know this kind of operation was common there. This is insane to me, that at night, with an approach like this one active, the military helicopters aren't simply required to divert around the approach path, or even fly some sort of hold to wait for landing traffic to clear. Yes, this is a VFR scenario, with "see and avoid" meme in effect, but that's fucking retarded. How are you supposed to see and avoid poorly lit low level military traffic from your right while turning left on final? Your attention is on the runway you are too low to be bobbing your head around like a heron looking for traffic. Even if they could see the helicopter earlier in this approach, it could easily be lost in ground clutter before vanishing below the nose. From the helicopter's point of view, identifying traffic is difficult at best at night in busy airspace, but since they were in cruise flight, albeit at low level, this is on them. In the end though, they never should have been there in the first place, it's just too easy for this to happen. This procedure is retarded and not only must change it never should have been approved in the first place. Someone must be held accountable for allowing something as stupid as low level military operations regularly crossing the active final approach to a busy airport at night.

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I ended up sperging over this because I never have anything valuble to contribute to the farms.
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Thank you for your contribution, it is of the best possible kind, especially considering the average kiwi contribution is a joke, a conspiracypost, or just excusable uninformed non-pilot questions.

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It looks like both of the aircraft were turning into the path of the other. Really bad. TCAS is programmed to avoid that. They were too low though. Do you think they saw each other?
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TCAS isn't going to give you a resolution on final approach at a couple hundred feet AGL. The military helicopter is most likely not equipped despite its operation in civil airspace, though I do not know what sort of traffic identification and avoidance military helicopters have.
 
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God's drunkest driver said:
TCAS isn't going to give you a resolution on final approach at a couple hundred feet AGL. The military helicopter is most likely not equipped despite its operation in civil airspace, though I do not know what sort of traffic identification and avoidance military helicopters have.
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If they’re flying in the airspace of an airport, they’re on radio with air traffic controllers.

This might be an air traffic control fuckup. Hopefully we get the audio at some point
 
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If they’re flying in the airspace of an airport, they’re on radio with air traffic controllers.

This might be an air traffic control fuckup. Hopefully we get the audio at some point
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Here you go:
Apparently you can't hear the audio from the blackhawk because they transmit on a separate channel. Because of they course they fucking do. *sigh*
 
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