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On this week’s episode of AvTalk:
- The NTSB holds its board meeting to determine the probable cause of the mid-air collision above the Potomac River last January
- UPS announces it has retired its MD-11 fleet
- A Bombardier business jet crashes attempting to depart Bangor, Maine
- Airlines are modifying their routes and schedules to avoid tensions in the Middle East
- A massive winter storm forces airlines to cancel more than 20,000 flights
- A British Airways A350 loses a wheel departing Las Vegas
- JetBlue livery contest
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Those simulations of the mid-air collision, from the perspectives of the helicopter and CRJ pilots, are upsetting. I don’t think there is any chance the helicopter pilots ever had the CRJ in sight. For one, the pilot replied almost immediately, when he was initially told about the traffic, saying he had it in sight. And even if he did have the correct CRJ in sight at that initial time, there was a point where they would have lost sight of it when it disappeared behind the frame of the helicopter’s windscreen. I don’t think they ever saw the plane before the impact (based on their lack of response to it on the CVR transcript).
As for the CRJ pilots, it’s heartbreaking to know they saw the helicopter at the last second (by their exclamations on the CVR transcript, and the fact they did try to pitch up)….but there was absolutely nothing they could do. That helicopter was so well hidden amongst all the lights until it was too late. So very sad.
I don’t understand why you said Biden caused the cutbacks on safety when your now president did super major cut backs i all aspect in the FDA , control tower, hiring of more of these essential safety controls in January and February last year. Is this more of Fox news or from higher control of the real truth…
It’s starting to look like the USSA.