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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why were they flowing 200 feet above the maxixmum altitude. And on top of that not seeing a plane that is descending right in front of them. Seems the helicopter did so many things wrong. Doesn’t really make sense.[/quote]

One question my spouse and I were just discussing is that we should find out how often helicopters flying that route along the Potomac violate the 200 ft limit for that route.

Meaning: was this helicopter doing something very out of the ordinary OR was it engaging in typical behavior (even if not prescribed behavior for helicopters on that route), and enough other stuff went on that the mistake was fatal.

[b]I wonder if all the things that "went wrong" in this situation actually go wrong all the time, and it's just that they all went wrong at once. [/b]Which is scary because that seems like an inevitability.[/quote]
This is the most common scenario for air crashes. I took a course on this in grad school, and after studying the investigation records of many air accidents, this is the common theme. It takes a very unlikely and specific combination of things going wrong to cause an air crash, but they happen.
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