The military helicopter that collided with an American Airlines flight via Washington DC flew almost twice the height of the original distance, but he warned a dangerous route of air traffic control in Blackhawk. New technology was not equipped. , You can reveal the post.
It comes when the army is bothering Pentagon about why the Army allows the Army to allow the Army to train in a convergent area in which the pilot is traded in Japan. The collision has been surveyed.
Black Hawk Chopper flew from the Potomac River on Wednesday night, jumped on a 5342 flight tied to Ronal Dragan Washington National Airport from Wichita, Kansas, and an airplane landed and had 67 aircraft on both aircraft. I died.
In the aviation guidelines, the helicopter on the route must be less than 200 feet.
President Trump on Friday blamed critics for his administrative responsibility for the recent firing of air authorities since his inauguration, and this problem is revealed in the deadly deviation from the necessary altitude. He pointed out that it was on.
“The Black Hawk Helicopter was flying too high, far exceeding the limit of 200 feet,” he said. I wrote about the true society。 “It's not really complicated.
If the Army equipped with a black hawk with an automatic dependencies on -cast device, the collision may have been avoided. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) states that this is a relatively new technology that can see the altitude of the aircraft. Friday episode His podcast “The Verdict”.
“Blackhawk helicopter had a transponder, so it appeared in the radar. The Republican members of the Texas say:” ADS-B is more accurate than just a transponder listening to the radar. Increases reliability.
Without ADS-B, the ATC operator could see where the helicopter was, but it was not the high flight. According to the Federal Aviation Bureau's guidance, the helicopter is equipped with only transponders, so it can only provide location data.
Nevertheless, pilot and aviation lawyer Steven Marks stated that ATC operators, who constantly monitor helicopters and aircraft, should be able to identify that they could far exceed the high altitude of the chopper. 。
“The tower not only looks at the radar screen, but also has a very low altitude at a very low altitude, especially visually separating aircraft,” he said.
“It's meaningless to any type of Americans. It's a common sense issue. I'm calling for the army. I don't want your helicopter that my people are landing. It's so easy. I think.
Senator Roger Marshall (R-KAN.)
“And even if they didn't know the exact altitude, they would have seen what the helicopter was, and that they seemed to be higher than the original and were on the approaching aircraft. “
According to Marks, it was the first time in modern American history to collide in the air.
The Federal Airlines rules cannot change to up to 75 feet from the ceiling, which requires pilots, but Marks said that the skilled pilots have not deviated from the necessary altitude.
“Helicopter's precision pilot should not be 75 feet, assigned altitude,” he said. “Yes, there is a room [for deviation] However, it is for a general aerial weekend pilot, not a commercial jet or military aircraft. They should be right. “
Marks said that it had a question: Why does the Army allow black hawk training near one of the most crowded airports in the United States?
Senator Roger Marshall (R-KAN) was one of the members seeking the Army to stop flying a helicopter at a short distance of Reagan Airport, where commercial flights are frequently landed.
“Why are we all allowed this kind of helicopter on the busy airport runway in Japan?” He told Fox News to the American News Room on Friday.
“It's meaningless to any type of Americans. It's a common sense issue. I'm calling for the army. I don't want your helicopter that my people are landing. It's so easy. I think.
The investigator continued to investigate the method of American Airlines passenger jet and Blackhawk's helicopter crashing into the Potmax River on Wednesday, killing 67 people in the world's most deadly air disaster in Japan. 。
In the wake of the tragedy, Senator Maria Kantwell (D-Wash), a top Democratic Party member of the Senate Commercial Committee, said that it was time to reconsider important helicopter flights near the crowded airport. 。
“The big question I have is, why are you flying a military training flight very close to the route that people are landing? [civilian] Flight Corido? “She asked.
Dan Dorisco, a candidate for the Army, also said that the army should reconsider training in crowded areas.
“You may need to see the place where it is appropriate for training, and may not be near Reagan's airport,” Dorisco confirmed in a Thursday confirmation hearing.
The FAA on Friday has disabled the traffic of all choppers in the area where the crash was dropped and the area near the Visie Airport.
“Today's decision will help secure the airspace near Reagan Airport and ensure the safety of airplanes and helicopters,” said Sean Duffy, Secretary Sean Duffy.
The ban does not include a medical support that saves life, an aggressive legal execution agency, an air defense or a presidential transportation. The restrictions will continue until the National Traffic Safety Commission has completed a clash on Wednesday.
Nevertheless, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegces, pledged to continue training flights early that day.
“Military trains, and they don't intend to train and stop training,” he said in Fox and Friends.
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“… I need to train when fighting. HegSeth states that such exercises are needed in an emergency, including the continuity of the government and the protection of President Trump.
On the other hand, this collision has been focused on air safety questions, as it may have been flying at higher altitudes at the time of the collision.
According to flight tracking data, the helicopter collided with the passenger seat at an altitude of about 300 feet. However, the army states that the maximum altitude of such a flight is suppressed to 200 feet for safety reasons.
“Why did the specific helicopter exceed 200 feet, with all 200 feet helicopters ceilings?” “Why didn't air traffic control picked it up?”
Kantwell also questioned the safety of military and commercial flights separated by such small margins.
“I can't imagine that visual separation can be approached … it doesn't make sense,” she said.
HegSeth said the investigator was investigating the issue of promotion.
“Someone was wrong, the investigation would help us understand it,” he said. “Is black hawk too expensive? Was it a course? We don't know well now.”
This post contacted the US military for comments.
