Posted on 04/27/2025 12:59:27 PM PDT by Strict9
The Black Hawk was 15 seconds away from crossing paths with the jet. Warrant Officer Eaves then turned his attention to Captain Lobach. He told her he believed that air traffic control wanted them to turn left, toward the east river bank,” the Times reported.
“Turning left would have opened up more space between the helicopter and Flight 5342, which was heading for Runway 33 at an altitude of roughly 300 feet. She did not turn left,” the report stated.
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If you have NVGs, you aren't 'using instruments'. The only 'instrument' is the radalt set @ 215' and you keep the red light on. Easily monitored in your scan.
Third person was the crewchief.
Unless they are required to be stupid subject to DEI goals.
She was above for far longer than that, else the Instructor wouldn’t have had to prompt her. She was way over 200’ @ impact.
We had people like this flying in our squadron, and by that I mean are ‘augments’ people who don’t work @ the unit day to day but the unit is tasked with their minimums. Never would this dope have gotten a second flight. Dabbler.
A day after the crash there was a map of the course and heights of both flights. The helicopter was at 200 until less than 60 seconds before the crash.
They have already closed the conflicting route.
60 seconds, a full minute over the route ceiling. @ a 120 kts, that would’ve made her over the ceiling since they had entered over the river.
That's a start. There needs to be more restrictions.
“ What orders did she not follow?”
The ones from the tower, Skippy.
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Nobody in that aircraft TOOK
Evasive Action...
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Sad really
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RIP
I am not sure how easy it is to “take over” controls of a helicopter. Are their two control sticks? If two people are switching between one stick that could cause troubles in terms of speed and height. Think of two people trying to switch steering a car at the same time.
LOL, yeah , “pass behind flight XXXX “ means let them go first ( a vague generic command), but that assumes the helicopter has a good visual on the correct target, IMO a better command would have been to “slow airspeed to XXX until flight XXX passes” ( a Blackhawk can slow down pretty fast, it had six miles to react and didn’t need to be going as fast as it was on a vector path with a landing jet
When riding front seat of the Bell 206 I was away from the controls moving in front of me by the pilot in the other seat until instructed to take control for a minute
and a Quik “Rock-Paper-Scissors” ?
I agree 100% with your post. Spot on. BTTT.
Missteps, Equipment Problems and a Common but Risky Practice Led to a Fatal Crash
New details revealed by The Times show that the failures on Jan. 29 before an Army helicopter crashed into a jet near Reagan National Airport were far more complex than previously known.
Complete non sequitur. It was an evaluation flight and all army check pilots are also instructor pilots. Instructor pilots log IP time even if someone else is PIC.
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