Sounds like Ft. Belvoir tower? Repeatedly tells the Black Hawk to return to base, to land at Dulles, to land at Baltimore. No response from helicopter. Tower audio starts around 6:38.
This whole plane wreck story is making me tired. The fixed wing was flying a normal approach pattern, minding his own business, and rigged for landing. There is nothing the chopper was doing that is “standard.” It had zero bizness crossing an approach pattern——at any elevation. Somebody was on the wrong radio freq but at a commercial airport there should only be two, TWO, in use-—one for ground and one for air. And the ATC tower crew had to be some of Mumbles DEI hires. What could go wrong with a one eyed midget and his deaf buddy running the tower?
What kind of dumbass instruction from the tower is telling the chopper to “go behind” the fixed wing. That’s not even real. Just made up panicky krap.
And was the chopper pilot, the Captain, a chick? Did I hear that right? With an officer in command of the chopper was it armed? Could have been. Were they hunting drones?
“Can you return to base?”
“I need you to land.”
I think lack of experience and confidence caused poor phrasing .
Or... severe mental disability...