Blackhawk pilot did not fly approved path — Helicopter was 1/2 mile off course and 100+ feet too high.
All the catastrophic mistakes that led to DC plane crash
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All by “accident”?
Most aircraft accidents are a series of unrelated mistakes. Planes don’t usually have massive failures without a lot of little failures first.
In the past couple of days I’ve read and heard a lot of pilots talk about how little things like looking at a dial might cause the plane to rise up a bit. I’ve heard how the message from the tower might have caused the pilot to look “right” when they should have looked “left.”
For example, those two little things would be insignificant alone—but combined the impact is significant.
Generally, an aviation accident is the confluence of SEVEN errors any one of which is insufficient to cause the crash, and if any one of those errors wasn’t present the loss wouldn’t be anything more than a near miss.