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Yeah, we were on short final and we saw flares from the opposite side of the Potomac."
Apparently both aircraft involved are in the river, a search and rescue will be ongoing."
An approach controller added It just could have been".
When asked why he thought the crash Because I have common sense, OK, and unfortunately, a lot of people don’t."
We’re cooperating fully with the National Transportation Safety Board and its investigation and will continue to provide all the information we can,
PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ."
The controller made another call to the chopper just moments later, saying There was communication between the air traffic control tower and the helicopter pilot about whether they can see the CRJ [the American Eagle Bombardier jet] – did the controller give too much authority to the helicopter crew, or did the helicopter crew mistake what they saw?”
Given that these are everyday training flights over known congested areas,
he said, referring to a nearby antenna The military tend to have a bit of a law-unto-themselves approach,
On 3/29/2024 at 1503 hours I observed two US army UH-60s nearly collide over 1-495 near Annandale,
he wrote in one complaint to the FAA from last March, noting they passed each other above the highway only “about 50-100 meters apart”. There’s so many places they could have been doing training. Why did they have to do it at the end of the runways of DCA?”
Johnson continued, referring to the airport code of Reagan National airport As we have said countless times before, DCA’s runway is already the busiest in the country,
Virginia US senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and Maryland’s senator Chris Van Hollen and then senator Ben Cardin, all Democrats, said in a joint statement months before the law was passed We lost more than 60 people, and two aircraft, and we shut down a major airport, and it was completely avoidable,
I do think the military was right to pause these flights now,
I think we might need to look at where is an appropriate time to take training risk, and it may not be near an airport like Reagan,
It was a fairly experienced crew and it was doing a required annual night evaluation,
The big question I have is why do you have a military training flight so close to the route that people are supposed to land... Why is that corridor right on top of the flight corridor?,
said Senator Maria Cantwell in an interview Well, you know, I fly in and out of that airport on a plane very similar in size every week at a Westchester County airport, and so certainly I was horrified to see that incident occur,
I think we finally have a president who's taking it [antisemitism] seriously,
I think obviously, unless you're landing at the airport, it's frankly unnecessary to be anywhere within the vicinity of the airport,
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