In it UH-60 helicopter of the Army of the company Bravo, 12th aviation battalion, Davison’s military aerodrome, Fort Belvoir, 3 soldiers who were on a training flight.
The plane accident meters from the White House and the Capitol has perplexed experts and authorities when it occurred in one of the most controlled and monitored air spaces in the world.
How did it happen on a clear night? Could it have been avoided with some previous worrying incidents? Some slide the possibility of a problem related to the shortage of air traffic controllers that has delayed flights and generated security concerns throughout the United States. But the reason for air collision is not yet known. The Pentagon said he was starting an investigation of the aerial accident that occurred in his own sky.
Due to the short length of its tracks, more than 90% of the flights use the main reagan national airport, making it the busiest in the USA, with more than 800 take -offs and daily landings.
The accident highlighted problems related to El Congested airspace shared by civil and military aircraft on the US capital. Perhaps the accident finally causes a modification on the flight routes to guarantee a S Proper eparaction between civil aircraft and military helicopters.
They have occurred several almost accidental incidents at the Reagan National Airport including almost collision in May 2024 between an American Airlines plane and a small plane and another in April 2024 between airplanes of Southwest and Jetblue.
The President Donald Trump Post midnight posted on his social network Social truth The doubts about the accident. “The plane was in a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport. The helicopter was directly to the plane for a long period of time.
And he continued: “It is a clear night, the plane lights were on, why did the helicopter go up or down, or turn? Why did the control tower not told the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane? This is a bad situation that seems to have been avoided.
Flight 5342 was heading to Ronald National Airport Reagan at an altitude of about 400 feet and a speed of about 140 mph when it suffered a rapid loss of altitude over the Potomac River, according to the data of its radio transpondent.
The senator Jerry Moran, He heads a Senate aviation subcommittee, he told Reuters that the immediate approach was to try to save lives, but after that, Congress would also investigate what went wrong.
“Then we will find out what happened”. Air traffic control recordings seemed to capture the last attempt to communicate with the helicopter, PAT25 indicativebefore it collided with the plane, described as CRJ.
“Pat25, do you have a CRJ in sight? Pat25, passes behind the CRJ”says an air controller at 20:47 (01:47 GMT), according to a recording at Liveatc.net.
Seconds later, another aircraft calls air traffic control and says: “Torre, did you see that?” Apparently referring to the accident, according to Reuters.
More air traffic control audio DE Liveatc.neta respected source of flight recordings, published by the British agency:
“Shock, shock, shock, this is an alert three”It can be heard to tell one of the air traffic controllers in the audio at the time of the accident.
“I don’t know if they realized before what happened, but there was a collision when approaching 33. We are going to suspend operations indefinitely,” He commented on another controller.
“Both the helicopter and the plane crashed in the river”it is heard to say to a third aerial controller.
“I was probably in the middle of the river,” The controller said. “I saw a fireball and then disappeared. I have not seen anything since they hit the river. But it was a crj and a helicopter that impacted.”
The last deadly accident in which an American commercial airline was wrapped in 2009 Buffalo, New York. All the people who were aboard the Bombardier propeller plane died, including 45 passengers, two pilots and two flight assistants.
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