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- The American Airlines flight, with 60 passengers and four crew on board, was landing at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when the mid-air collision took place.
Sky's Data and Forensics Correspondent Tom Cheshire has been looking at the flight data, showing the moments leading up to the crash in Washington DC.
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Flightradar24 does track helicopters, just not military aircraft
Can confirm
Why the hell would the US military make the standard route for helicopter traffic be in front of a major runway for civilian airliners? Surely someone would have noticed that!
There’s a military helicopter base directly across the river from the airport
Defund the military!!!
Helicopter pilots try and limit flying over built up areas. When flying across populated areas we will choose to fly over or next to a river incase of an emergency we can ditch the aircraft into the water without risk to people on the ground.
The military thinks they're "invincible" and should get the priority all the time. Very typical.
I'm not very knowledgeable on the procedures there, but would it be safer for the helicopter to fly away from the airport and not across it ?
Did she really just say "This isn't live is it?" At 2:02...How would it be live? 🤦♂️
I have an app that shows every aircraft in the air at the moment. Yes, it could have been live. It was a valid question
@@Cinemaphile7783 Those markers moving that fast on the screen... It wasn't a valid question.
@@newera478 Exactly my point 👊
haha yes that's live. The boats are all going >1000 mph.
She is out to lunch.
Flightradar24 is the goat
Deadly D.C. Plane Crash Comes Months After Congress Ignored Warning About Traffic at Reagan Airport
Exactly.
This will continue happening, too, unless the system gets fixed.
Horrific. Expect to see more of the same with the implementation of DOGE…the gutting of critical FAA infrastructure, NTSB, and key aviation safety programs.
The helicopter pilot was almost certainly at fault. Since it is rare for planes to land on runway 33, they got complacent and careless. They simply assumed a commercial jet would not be crossing the Potomac at that point. That biased expectation likely caused them to misinterpret or simply ignore ATC's communications.
The people who approved the flight path, crossing a landing zone for an international airport, should be held accountable for their ourely ignorant decisions on this
Simple statement..... Who wasn't paying attention? Helicopter pilot? Airline pilot ? or air traffic controller?.
All of the above
ATC calls were released, early on...
Heli was given clear instruction to stay behind...
Airplane landing as priority i would think
I would assume the pilot was a bit “distracted” by landing a large commercial aircraft at night. So I would count him (or her, don’t crucify me) out
It is quite possible that the pilot of the helicopter had a medical emergency that we are unaware of
A lot of things are possible.
Just like its possible a Panda was piloting it
Ok great finally with all this explaination we understand that both helicopter and plane were flying at the same altitude
@miguelmelchior986 Wow. What a stupid comment.
@@nazirkhan2141 Is it true that plane dropped in altitude unexpectedly?
Air traffic controllers are to blame according to trump. Did he do a factcheck?
Fun Fact, Washington is actually named after former US President George Washington...who was like, some really old dude
Prayers to all 🙏
Hold on for all the conspiracy theories in comment sections
It was planned by Elon and Tupac is still alive
Discuss all the theories that have been determined as fact
Waiting for the "inside job" kooks to show up.
This is concerning. How could 2 flying objects be on same altitude and the controller did not warn them. Also if I am not mistaken, planes do have ACAS which should have warned the pilot of an approaching object.
Controller warned them about 30 seconds before impact
Collision avoidance does not work below 900ft
@ 30 secs is too too late. But why did the controller not change at least one of the flight altitude.
Apart from radio communication from air traffic control, do airports have any visual indicators for aircraft on the ground, like traffic lights etc.?
Military helicopter is at fault. They trained for war, missiles manover exercises 🙏
That plane that crashed in the Potomac river in 1982 was also in January.
What a coincidence. What does it mean?
@@allenmccreary2359 That history repeats itself , dahhh
So?
Runway 33 month of Janus
What red October doing up there?
One week before this crash, Donald Trump fired the entire federal aviation security advisory committee. In December, the head of the FAA Whitaker resigned after being continually attacked on X by Elon Musk. I believe the instability that Trump and musk created at the FAA may have been contributing factors to this crash.
And so begins the conspiracy theories....
It looks deliberate on the part of the helicopter to me
➡ January 20: FAA director fired
➡ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Why was the helicopter so close, not move, why air traffic control not see this sooner.. clearly pilot of helicopter could see the airplane unless something happened to that pilot medical wise. Tragic 💔
Breaking bad reference guys!!!!
What a mess .. why the helo didnt take avoiding actions .. when the jet was in the final of finals .. the controller should also have turned the helo hard port avoiding action .. he sence something by asking the helo if he had visual .. and someone asked to clear aircraft by viual clearance ..!
Hold up... Don't let the Russians watch this... they will find where the Red October is stashed! Quick, someone tell Cpt Ramius
The NTSB will investigate.....will take a while. In the end we will know what happened and if it was human error they will let us know, no matter who was at fault.
Helicopter without lights and on a training mission.
Just listened to Trump's press conference , better described as' incoherent ramblings of a mad man'. I take it the late Stephen Hawkins would not qualify as an Air Traffic Controller?
New?
Amazing american engineering again.Exceptional indeed
this has nothing to do with american engineering but go off
Trump said "They were at the same elevation ". What a genius!
David Lammy has also said his thoughts are with them. Desperate measures, Trump is going to have a ball with him
Why is red october being shown on the map when they look at the marine boats
Free Palestine
trumps fault
I just thought to myself about this type of thing and now it’s happening what a coincidence
Ia this a terror attack? As Plane is has been used before so why can’t a Helicopter or drone be used to hit a plane?
Hopefully as it the US and Trump in power all angles of investigations we be looked into .
RIP 🙏those who have died in this awful crash
Extremely unlikely. Pretty much impossible in D.C. airspace now.
Possibly.. The US military Is the biggest terrorist organisation after all. Wouldn't be surprised if this is a false flag used to spread 'freedom' to other countries.
Why are so many people afflicted with "Conspiracy Theorist Disorder" these days?
There is God, thank God
God is all knowing, and thus caused the crash.
@@danperlman7194is ur diaper 💩💩=I win==you lose 😂😂
Trump blames diversity rules under his predecessors, saying he believes people were hired for air traffic control roles who were not qualified - but offers no evidence for this
because he will do anything he can to put the blame on immigrants instead of look for true answers and support victims. i am not even american and i can see what he is clearly trying to do, his cruel response to this tragedy made me very sad. may the victims rest in peace ❤