Officials say that the crew of an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided in the air with an American airline passenger plane near Ronald Reagan Washington International Airport gave important messages from air traffic management before the flight was too expensive. I made sure I didn't know what I hadn't heard.
The crash on the Potomac River on January 29th killed 67 people as it happened during an Army “flight check.” There were no survivors.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chairman Jennifer Homedy said at a press conference Friday that the important message from air traffic control could have been relayed to Black Hawk seconds before crash.
Emergency workers recover debris from the Potomac River in the aftermath of a collision between the American Eagle Flight 5342 and the Black Hawk helicopter. (Reuters/Carlos Barrier)
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Within 20 seconds of the collision, a radio transmission from the tower was heard on both cockpit audio recorders (CVRs), instructing the Black Hawk to “pass behind” the passenger seat of the CRJ.
“CVR data from Black Hawk shows that the portion of the transmission that it said “passes behind the…” may not have been received by the Black Hawk crew,” Homendy said. Ta.
According to the NTSB, the transmission was stepped in step by step by step by step by step by step by step mic keys for the Black Hawk to communicate with Air Traffic Control (ATC).
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The instructor pilot then told Pilot Flying that it appears that the ATC is asking the helicopter to move left towards the east bank of the Potomac River.
The NTSB confirmed that the Black Hawk was flying at a radio altitude of 278 feet, but the department also said the cockpit barometric altimeter could be showing another person to the crew.
“We are not releasing altitude across the Black Hawk route because we see information that is inconsistent with the data,” Homendy said. “We see the possibility [that there] It may be bad data. Did they see something different in the cockpit? [flight data recorder] (FDR) Which data is radio altimeter? ”
Crews will retrieve the wreckage of American Airlines Flight 5342 on the Potomac River on January 30th. (Lee Green from Fox News Digital)
The two previous issues could be ameliorated by Black Hawk's Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcasting (ADS-B), which can prevent traffic conflicts by estimating intervals and separations.
However, the NTSB said it “not transmitting” during flight, prompting reviews of equipment, programming and whether there was a malfunction of the equipment.
Another possibility, Homedy said, is that the ADS-B has been turned off.
The agency will continue to investigate and assess visibility concerns.
Jennifer Homendy, chairman of the National Road Safety Committee, said there were many issues that led to the crash on January 29th. (Pool)
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According to Homedy, the Army's Black Hawk crew may have been wearing night vision goggles during the flight.
“That would be a factor in our visibility research,” she said. “We need to see what they can see at the time, all the way down to the sequence of collisions and accidents.”
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Recorder data shows that there was no audible response from the Black Hawk crew prior to the crash, indicating that they were not aware of the impending collision.
