A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter carrying three soldiers collided with an American Airlines plane with 60 passengers over the Potomac River on Wednesday evening. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority confirmed the mission has become a recovery operation, with first responders recovering 28 people in total.
A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with three soldiers collided with an American Airlines plane with 60 passengers over the Potomac River around 9 PM ET on Wednesday.Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority CEO Jack Carter confirmed the mission has become a recovery operation.Chief of the District of Columbia Fire Department, John Donnelly, told the press the first responders “recovered 27 people from the plane and one from the helicopter.
US Figure Skating: U.S. Figure Skating can confirm that several members of our skating community were sadly aboard American Airlines Flight 5342, which collided with a helicopter yesterday evening in Washington, D.C. These athletes, coaches, and family members were returning home…I was a Blackhawk helicopter crew chief in the Army.
I can tell you after doing this for hundreds of hours, even when you know EXACTLY where a Blackhawk is, and you have night vision goggles on, it is EXTREMELY hard to SEE the aircraft.The red and green lights on the side get lost in the lights of the city below. The only “lights” on top of the aircraft are called “slime lights” because they are a very very very dim green.
Checking instruments, doing math, reading checklists, and listening to multiple radios all at the same time is HARD. Mistakes happen. Constant bearing means collision. The jet’s lights were not “moving” relative to the background lights and could not be picked out by the helicopter. As far as they could tell, there was nothing there.… he states with complete certainty, fully ignoring not only the embedded tweet but also thousands upon thousands of successful “see and be seen” encounters that have happened over the years.Long ago Flying Magazine published an article on how to spot aircraft from the air.
He’s draining the swamp as fast as he can. The irony is the very people who are criticizing him are part of the swamp.His proper response when confronted with converging aircraft and warnings is to tell the helicopter to make a 90 degree left turn and descend 150 ft and tell the jet to go around and climb to 3000 feet. That is SOP for this very situation.
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