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(NewsNation) — New details suggest missed instructions played a relation successful the January mid-air collision betwixt an Army Black Hawk chopper and a rider jet successful Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people.
A new report from the New York Times reveals the aviator aboard the Black Hawk failed to heed a formation instructor's informing seconds earlier the crash.
It appears aggregate information precautions failed the nighttime of the crash, and the treatment astir the crash has mostly centered astir the tallness of the helicopter.
The caller reporting besides indicates that aviator Rebecca Lobach missed an bid from her co-pilot and formation teacher Andrew Eaves, who was overseeing the grooming mission.
The bid would person changed the course of the chopper to debar the oncoming American Airlines jet.
The pilots besides missed cardinal accusation erstwhile they stepped connected instructions from formation control, meaning they talked implicit instructions from aerial postulation control. That meant they didn't perceive directives from the operation that the level was circling.
In audio that was recorded 20 seconds from the crash, the operation asked the Black Hawk if they had the level successful show and told them to walk down the plane. The chopper aviator requests ocular separation to usage their ain visuals alternatively of absorption from the tower.
The operation approved ocular separation, but it was excessively late. Seconds later, you tin perceive commotion successful the tower, and past you tin perceive the absorption to the impact.
The National Transportation Board has corroborated immoderate of this. In February, they said the Black Hawk whitethorn not person heard the bid due to the fact that they had stopped connected the audio wherever aerial postulation power told the Black Hawk chopper doubly that the level was changing runways, was circling and would beryllium landing.
"A vigor transmission from the operation was audible connected the CRJ CVR, informing the Black Hawk that postulation conscionable southbound of the Wilson Bridge was a CRJ astatine 1200 feet, circling to runway three. CVR information from the Black Hawk indicated that the information of the transmission stating the CRJ was circling whitethorn not person been received by the Black Hawk Crew," NTSB seat Jennifer Homendy said. "We perceive the connection circling successful ATC communications, but we bash not perceive the connection circling connected the CVR of the Black Hawk."
All of which adds to the analyzable representation of what happened that night.
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