Investigators are on the move on the D.C. plane that crashed in Washington D.C. a few nights ago, and they’re still concerned about the cause of the collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk helicopter, the recovery crew is still concentrating upon pulling out the plane in the Potomac River that’s near the Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on Monday.
Many embryonic concerns were raised about the path of the aircraft, while this involved a helicopter that couldn’t see the plane behind it. It had
a visual separation which means it was able to see the other planes except one; therefore that was in their blind spot just like when you drive a car there is a blind spot in the mirror. There is a tower that is the air traffic control, and they can see all the planes coming in and categorize it so they let each plane know what’s going on.
The National Transportation Safety Board, within the bounds of investigating the cause, will take about 30 days to inform custody for a final report; that therefore would determine a probable cause, so it might take a while, they say.
The helicopter was going on a training mission until it suddenly made a conflict on Wednesday night with a commercial plane. Sadly there were no survivors; about 64 were killed that night, so may they rest in peace. There was a theory that the helicopter was behind the plane, but we’re not sure what happened that night. They’re still investigating some information from the collision’s incidents and potential avenues for the investigation are materialized.
There were 2 occasions when the passenger planes had to face prevaricating action to abstain from colliding with the helicopter when it was
trying to land at Reagan Airport. Also on the authority of reports by filed pilots, another collision occurred with 2 military helicopters that were too close to each other, an air traffic controller reported.
Another day before the collision happened there was another flight spawning to Reagan and had to be forced to abort its first landing and would have to go around after the helicopter flew near its skyway, which was spoken by the air traffic control audio. If it didn’t go around the helicopter then really serious stuff would happen, and we don’t want that.
