Midair Collision - DC - American Airlines and Blackhawk

Rockwood said:
60’s operating ceiling was 200’, crash happened at 350-400’ ish. 60 was course steady at 200’, but appeared to slow and gain altitude on approach to CRJ’s flight path. I assume pilot realized there might be another jet nearby, and backed off of the cyclic while not backing off collective and gained altitude into CRJ’s flight path.
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ATC is reciving a lot of criticism and may have been able to do things better but this is WHY the collision happened. Why the 60 climbed above his 200' ceiling early we will probably never know.
 
Rockwood said:
I assume flight paths, operating procedure, etc, will be re-racked. Will it fix everything? Probably not.

As for the airport location... I'm sure the power-players were put off having to drive somewhere to get to their jet... That's just inconvenient...
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During the early reporting on this accident it was mentioned that there were plans to shut down this airport but Congress would not allow it because the idiots liked the close proximity of the airport to downtown. It was too convenient for them.
 
THD said:
During the early reporting on this accident it was mentioned that there were plans to shut down this airport but Congress would not allow it because the idiots liked the close proximity of the airport to downtown. It was too convenient for them.
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I somewhat agree with them: it’s where I usually flew into for meetings there.

What definitely shouldn’t be happening is direct flights from everywhere. It’s not a hub, nor is it suited to be one. Send those Wichita flights into Dulles.
 
Another aircraft went down and apparently struck a mall in Philadelphia. The video the news is showing it has done a lot of damage and a lot of fire. They just announced that at least 6 killed. Sounds like it was a medical flight, 2 drs, patient and relative, and two pilots. Damn!
 
Rockwood said:
Thanks @Mac. I assume there will be some definite changes around this airport. I flew into DCA weekly for 6 months on a project, it's a shit show. Approach changes, 57 gajillion bases nearby all with helicopters or fixed wing, executive helicopters, no-fly zones out the yin-yang, etc. It's a super busy area.
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Anybody hear bout the Jet Wambulace crash?
One guy owns the company.
Previous crash.
Medical flights may not be tightly controlled, they just fly here.
Tail number was "Cloned" and attempted to fly in, D.E.A. caught them.
What could possibly go wrong?
 
JDMeister said:
Anybody hear bout the Jet Wambulace crash?
One guy owns the company.
Previous crash.
Medical flights may not be tightly controlled, they just fly here.
Tail number was "Cloned" and attempted to fly in, D.E.A. caught them.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Something big time went wrong for Lear 55 to lawn dart like it did. The flight was a good hearted flight to take a kid home for recovery. SAD ending.
 
Wash 10 Crew said:
Something big time went wrong for Lear 55 to lawn dart like it did. The flight was a good hearted flight to take a kid home for recovery. SAD ending.
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I read that they had a gurney not strapped down properly and the movement from takeoff could have caused the accident. I’m sure that’s just speculation.
 
She was flying. One of the other soldiers would have been manning the radios.
 
Mac said:
Not true.

Unless delegated (rarely ever happens), the pilot flying, does the talking to ATC.
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My mistake then. Was watching Juan Brown on youtube go over the clusterfu%$ that flying that location is. He went over the roles of the 3 soldiers, also saying that due to being the army, 450 hours was about average for her rank. Also, it wasn't a slight on army pilots. Just that they have to do more with less.
 
"Your aircraft"
"My aircraft"
 
THD said:
During the early reporting on this accident it was mentioned that there were plans to shut down this airport but Congress would not allow it because the idiots liked the close proximity of the airport to downtown. It was too convenient for them.
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They wanted to expand the # of flights in to DCA, not close it.
 
madweazl said:
They wanted to expand the # of flights in to DCA, not close it.
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For some reason: Congressmen like to brag that they have a direct flight from DC to their hometown. Even when it makes zero sense.
 
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