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Wow these videos. I know looks can be deceiving but it just looks...so intentional. How do you not notice a jet flying at you. Do Blackhawks not have windows on the side? Are there blind spots? [/quote]

Plexiglass bubble, and they were way above the tree line so no excuse not to see or look slightly left at a plane lining up for runway 33.
Plus the fact that ATC told them the facts twice. [/quote]

At night it can be hard to tell if a stationary light in the sky is a light on the ground, or a light from a plane traveling directly at you. I help my dad spot traffic in his plane whenever I see him, and have since I was a teen, and night flying can be tricky because of that even in clear conditions.[/quote]

The pilots had night vision goggles on so there shouldn't have been as much glare. It makes no sense that they didn't see the plane. [/quote]

The pilots had night vision goggles on board - no information gives concrete info on whether or not they were wearing them or not. And again, the planes light could have appeared entirely stationary in the sky - which can make it hard to determine that it is a plane.

The crash is awful - and my hope is that the investigation by the NTSB is thorough and not politicized so that our system can learn good lessons from it so it doesn't happen again.[/quote]

I heard a description from a pilot explaining the night vision goggles are built into the helmets but can be flipped up and down very easily. So it sounds like they were wearing the goggles but there's no way for us to know if they were flipped down or not.

He also said, and this part actually doesn't make sense to me, that if one pilot was wearing them, the other one would be too, and vice versa. This actually strikes me as odd because they've said that night vision goggles can help in some ways but also limit vision in other ways. So it actually seems like it would be advantageous to have one pilot wear them and the other not, so fill in the gaps in one another's vision.

But I'm a layperson, I know nothing.[/quote]

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