3 ms·
This comment was written by a US Coast Guard helicopter pilot. It gives a lot of information on how the two aircraft should have been able to share the space an
by hluska 2y ago
This comment was written by a US Coast Guard helicopter pilot. It gives a lot of information on how the two aircraft should have been able to share the space and some speculation on what went wrong:
https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1idba8i/comment/m9yfvz6/ https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1idba8i/comment/m...
- Animats 2y agoThat makes sense. A helicopter instructor suggests that possibly the helicopter pilots, who were told to go behind an aircraft that was landing, were looking at the previous aircraft that was landing.[1] That's just speculation at this point. [1] https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2025/01/29/reagan-national-airport-blackhawk-crj-crash/ https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2025/01/29/reagan-national...
- GoblinSlayer 2y agoThey could use the car autopilot solution: simply negotiate your coordinates with nearby traffic instead of trying to parse malformed visual data.