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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1885319260177592325[/twitter][/quote]

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]

This explanation is very unsettling to those of us who are not pilots and do not work in aviation.

"It's hard to see things that are right in front of you while flying at night" is never going to satisfy anyone for an explanation for this crash.[/quote]

Thank goodness for navigational flying, radar, gauges, alerts and ATC! [/quote]

Right but apparently that wasn't enough in this instance and the helicopter still flew directly into a plane they'd been told about by ATC three times and that should have shown up on their internal radar which one of the three people on the helicopter might have bothered to look at during the several minutes prior to collision when they were being alerted to a plane in their flight path and they were passing a very busy commercial airport during a peak traffic time.

But apparently that's all unreasonable to expect because, after all, it's just super hard to see at night when flying a helicopter! [/quote]

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