Per CNN Regional Jet crashes in Potomac River
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So a helicopter hits an airplane? It’s night and dark every night. Somehow we’ve avoided this kind collision in our history of aviation.
Air Florida Flight 90 - Wikipedia
Air Florida flight 90 . He sucked up snow and ice using his reverse thrusters, degraded take off speed and crashed into the water near the 14th street bridge.
Exactly...it was avoided a few billion times, it was only a matter of time before an accident hit.
That video does not look good…not a controlled water landing
Air Florida. Icing conditions on the wings. Very avoidable if I recall correctly.
DCA has always freaked me out with all of the local air traffic. Our travel agency recently switched to United as their preferred airline, so there’s always a Dulles option.
I assume the jet has the right of way in the sky
what the heck was the helicopter doing right in the landing airspace of the airport??
what the heck was the helicopter doing right in the landing airspace of the airport??
People make a big deal about the car travel time, but I really don’t mind BWI.
I think he is getting at its 2025 and we have all this tech and years of experience around that area.
But to Brian’s point, billions of flights have probably happened in that area so i guess it was bound to happen randomly
Life comes at you fast, Pete. Maybe talk to other media outlets, too.
Ya know? The amount “worst of the worst” scenarios I’ve imagined have come to fruition over the last few years.
We plebes don’t deserve the truth. Just whatever those in power decide to tell us. 70% if me is telling myself that this is an accident. That other 30% is saying there is something more to it.
Death can occur between 30-90 minutes in that temp water.
I remember that one. Harrowing video of the rescues.Air Florida Flight 90 - Wikipedia
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As does every single flyer roaming that particular area.
It's at night, and the pilot could have picked up the wrong plane in the sky when the tower was trying to direct him to go behind.
I would think the fault has to lie with the pilot crossing low near the end of the runway. Wild to think had he seen it at almost any point he could have pulled to a stop in like 10 seconds and just watched it go by.
Not sure if it was posted yet.. Chopper had 3 US soldiers on board.
ATC is largely the first place to look on an accident like this.
Not buying 4 alive. Sounds like they were pulled out and DOA
CRJ is on final, heli confirms visual and instructed to go behind. Definitely not CRJ fault and not a damn thing they could do about the other pilot’s mistake. (ATC probably should have altered heli altitude too). Freaking tragedy.
That is correct with the jet having the right away but at that altitude the ATC is giving the instructions. Not saying the pilots aren’t responsible for not scanning for collisions but I suspect the ATC and on board traffic collision instruments failed.
For as long as they've been in the cold river, I'm not sure we're going to get any good news.
Going to tell you right now, they didn’t fail. 😑 They don’t.
Sounds like helicopter crew likely identified the wrong aircraft that ATC was telling them to lookout for. Sad
The 4 needing med attention were search personal. Water is cold.
On Reddit it sounds like the helo was flying a regular path up the river and told to get eyes in the landing plane. They reported they had it spotted but it’s possible they were looking at the wrong plane as runway 33 isn’t normally as active.
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