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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This administration will be slow to blame the helicopter pilot, cuz military, and also he was a white male.

But I don’t envision a scenario where the Black Hawk crew was not at fault.[/quote]

One scenario is if everyone on the BH was following normal procedure for these flights, if they were doing the same things that most military helicopters do when they go through that corridor.

With these reports coming out of the large volume of "near misses" at National involving helicopters, it raises the question of whether these flights have been unsafe for years and a mid-air collision was an inevitability because of systemic problems.

Like we're all sitting around trying to understand why the helicopter was flying above 200 ft, why they assured ATC twice that they had visual separation but apparently never checked their radar, why the helicopter shifted to the middle of the river when the prescribed flight pattern expects helicopters to hug the eastern short (specifically to stay out of the way of aircraft taking off and landing at National), and so on.

An investigation could find that the helicopter crew was violating official policy in all of these choice BUT could also find that these behaviors are so typical for helicopters flying that route that the crew could not be considered individually responsible. In that case it's a systemic issue that should have been addressed by people further up the food chain.[/quote]

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