Posted on 01/29/2025 6:26:20 PM PST by CFW
A small aircraft crashed near Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday night.
In a post on X, D.C. Fire and EMS said a small aircraft in the vicinity of the airport had crashed into the Potomac River. Fireboats are currently on the scene.
It is not known at this time if anyone was injured in the crash.
The airport is closed until 11 p.m. “due to an aircraft emergency,” the Federal Aviation Agency said on its website. The airport said all flights are under a ground stop as emergency personnel responds to the incident.
This story is developing. Stay with WTOP for the latest.
What is the name of the army helicopter pilot?
tower told copter if they saw the landing jet and to go behind the jet. copter hit jet.
Yes,.....What is the name of the army helicopter pilot?
Fox is not showing video available on X.
On the video I saw just before impact from the chopper it looked to Me that the plane had tried to drop altitude (not as on final approach) like the AA Crew saw the chopper and they tried to get below the chopper.
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Helo call sign Army P-A-T 25, originating from Ft Belvoir.
Tower asks the helo pilot if the pilot can see the CRJ.
Tower instructs the pilot to navigate behind the CRJ.
No response from helo to tower.
Collision occurs almost immediately after tower comms. are transmitted.
horrible CVR on that flight. I heard it once, pilot screaming for his mother. Awful stuff.
Per Jon Scott: Tower asking PAT25 (helicopter) if he could see the jet & instructing copter to pass behind the jet ... about that time, collision occurred.
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I remember that.
You’re exactly right.....things are seldom what they may seem in accidents .....
Thanks for the information
Trump will NEVER withhold the name of the pilot, a Dem YES but Trump NO WAY!!!
I’m thinking that too. Sure looks obvious, but maybe with camera angles and flight speed what we think we are seeing didn’t really happen. It’s horrible, no matter what it was.
From the radar track and the approach procedure chart they were turning toward final for Runway 33. That would have been a left turn and the helicopter was approaching from their right, so the RJ would have somewhat had its belly toward the helicopter and likely couldn’t see it, as well as the pilots would be looking toward the runway to their left and away from the direction of the helicopter.
The DCA controller reportedly asked the helicopter if he had the RJ in sight just before the collision, which indicated he had already called that traffic out to them, so they should have been looking for it. I’m surprised by two things: 1) that the controller allowed these aircraft to get so close together, and 2) that the TCAS on either or both aircraft didn’t issue an RA (Resolution Advisory) that would give them an alert to either climb or descend immediately to avoid collision.
Fox did mention that this is the type of copter is used by Sec of Defense and Sec of Army.
:: What is the name of the army helicopter pilot? ::
If it’s anything resembling “Aloha Snackbar” or “pronoun”, then I think we have the culprit.
But, sometimes, an accident is just an accident. We’ll see
I don’t think it’s jumping to conclusions when you actually see the helicopter deliberately fly into the plane
It flew into the plane
And they have the manifest
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