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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just avoid regional jets. [b]Normal jets can’t land on runway 33 anyway, [/b]and that runway is the issue. DCA is so much quicker in and out.[/quote]

Not true in any way. Regular narrow bodies can land on 15/33 as long as it's dry. Not optimal, but they can do it.

https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=586405

The crash in January, from is known so far, had everything to do with the helicopter traffic near the airport, not the runway configuration.[/quote]

Sort of. Had they stayed lined up for the main runaway as they were originally (before they were asked to move to 33) they would not have encountered the helo. [/quote]
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You have a lot of specific opinions on DCA operations for someone who didn't know that 737/A320s periodically use 15/33.[/quote]

I have watched/read an insane amount of information on the crash. The doomed flight was originally inbound for the main runway. Had they simply landed there, instead of being asked to move to runway 33, it wouldn't have happened. The flight immediately before them was asked to take 33 and the pilot declined, which is allowed. This is not my opinion. [/quote]

You may want step back and read more broadly about these sorts of events. It's an understandable thing to do, but assigning so much blame to one specific thing is not usually the right way to look at it. One common way to think about it is what they call "Swiss cheese theory". These systems all have failure points, like holes in swiss cheese. Usually one failure point in one system will get stopped by the body of the piece of cheese below it. Maybe once a couple of holes will lineup, but not in the 3rd piece.

And then, horribly, say 5 slices all line up where the failure points are together, and an accident like this happens. There have been people asking for the helo routes around DCA to be limited for decades. They warned about the pressure it put on the system because it induced so many more potential places where the holes might line up. It finally did, sadly. The operation of 15/33 probably was a part of that happening, of course. But no one has been clamoring for that runway to be shutdown in nearly the same way.

If I were you I would wait until the final report is issued before jumping too far in your conclusions. There is often very important info that is discovered later during the process.

This is a great example article- Langwiesche has been writing about aviation for 30+ years.

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2014/10/the-human-factor[/quote]

This thread is about flying out of DCA (or not.)[/quote]

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