The Black Hawk pilot may not have heard any important directives from air traffic control to fly behind an American Airlines plane seconds before colliding with the jet, the National Transportation Safety Board on Friday I stated.
NTSB Chairman Jennifer Homendy told a press conference that all 67 people were killed on both flights 17 seconds before the fatal crash on January 29th, with the Black Hawk passing behind the passenger jet Blackhawk was instructed to do so.
“They may not have received the 'back pass' because they were communicating with Air Traffic Control,” Homendi explained.
The Black Hawk pilot may have “stepped” through communication by pressing the microphone to try to communicate back to air traffic control.
Investigators said there was a clear contradiction between the two Army pilots as to what altitude they were flying.
At one point before the collision, the helicopter pilot announced it was 300 feet, but the instructor pilot said the helicopter was 400 feet, Homedy said.
