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(NewsNation) — Former Black Hawk helicopter unit main Mark McEathron believes determination has ne'er been a safer clip to committee a flight.
Despite 2 recent craft crashes McEathron insists they are unrelated and that determination is nary contiguous menace to travelers.
"There's there's nary narration whatsoever. They're antithetic aerial spaces, wholly antithetic clime situations, wholly antithetic aircraft, wholly antithetic crews wholly and truthful that is wholly unrelated," McEathron told "NewsNation Live Weekend."
"The information is the safest clip successful past for aviation," helium said. "These incidents are tragic, they're terrible, they're terrifying for viewers and for radical who alert and enactment successful this, but it is conscionable a statistical information that it's the safest clip we've ever had."
McEathron explained the assorted roles of a aviator and unit main connected a Black Hawk chopper formation and what helium believes occurred connected the nighttime of the crash.
"The pilots' jobs are to alert the aircraft. The unit chief's occupation is airspace surveillance and obstacle avoidance," helium said.
"That's the occupation of the unit chief, particularly astatine the space of the Black Hawks volition fly. They alert chemoreceptor down conscionable earlier the main road, oregon to beryllium capable to propulsion it along. So, the pilots are looking consecutive ahead, looking down, oregon adjacent looking successful the craft for the tasks and duties they person to do.
"Where the unit main is the lone 1 that could beryllium looking up back, down [and] below. So they're the ones that truly wide that airspace.
"Unfortunately, successful this incident, we had 1 unit main connected the craft not to we don't ever alert with two. That's not needfully required, but determination was lone 1 successful unfortunately, helium was connected the other broadside of the wherever this craft was coming from, and truthful helium would person had nary visibility of it."
