Scotty Films – In The Air Tonight

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• "Absurd, crazy, set up is an accident waiting to happen"!

  Reagan National Mid-Air Collision: A Pilot’s Analysis
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVDofX-TVuQ

  Couldn’t agree more! Collision occurred at c.350 feet.

  Helpful map of Reagan Airport area showing military corridor and runway 133 approach. It would not be surprising if they uncover previous near misses at this same dangerous intersection.

• Blackhawk directed to pass behind the airliner! Yikes!

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R1qhHrWk5o

  OMG the recovered Blackhawk black box indicated the Blackhawk was at 325 feet plus or minus 25 feet according to the NTSB which also reported control instructed the Blackhawk to cross the flight path behind the airliner. All this liteally raised the hair on my arms! One airline pilot has claimed that its his understanding that military helecopetrs were to confine their operation to the land opposite the airfield, and this accident occurred over the river.

  Combined together with neither craft being on the same radio frequency which further complicated the mix and you must understand why this raised the hair on the back of my arms. Either sound procedure was not followed or it’s unsound, maybe both. Like I noted in previous comments, that helicopter should not have been anyways horizontally or vertically near the landing pattern for runway 133 to which the airliner was redirected from 110 by request of control.

  To state this another way, the Blackhawk could have been as high as 350 feet and over the Potomac when it blindsided a rerouted airliner banking left. The Blackhawk should not have been anyways nearby and the fact that it was by permission of control stands out like a sore thumb.

  • Thanks for this!

    • Experienced airline pilot fingers the problem:

      500-Hour Blackhawk H-60 Pilot, Rebecca Lobach, Failed to See & Avoid American Eagle 5342
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3PtOdR_VCc

      I could not agree more, nobody, pilot or controller should be forced into threading traffic meedles through an active final approach corridor! Period!!! Years ago when I was flying this space was sacred. Stay far away from it unless you have clearance to be in it. The presence of a potential intruder is a threat to landing aircraft even though it may not be in the corridor. A few hundred feet separation can vanish in what seems a blink of the eye.

      I see faulty policy and procedure here and lack of good judgment likely due to inexperience and even that is a policy flaw. The airliner had every right to be where it was, the helecopter did not.

      • We're dealing with extremely secretive Continuity of Government issues and Restricted Airspace and I'll be coming out with the assessment of three people later today.

• Sometimes the best explanation is the simplest. Not everything has to be a conspiracy.

  "The single-greatest error in this accident was the decision to fly without a second Crew Chief on the left-hand side of the Blackhawk, who could have provided an extra set of eyes to “look out-and-up” to see the approaching American Airlines Passenger plane."

  More here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/wayne-root-here-is-best-explanation-ive-heard/

  • It doesn't have to but it is. lol