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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does a black hawk helicopter have duplicate controls for a pilot and a copilot? Can you disable one or the other for training purposes? [/quote]

Yes. Especially in the case of a training flight. The instructor pilot would have had the capability to take over control of the helicopter.

However if the problems happened too quickly right before collision, it may not have mattered. But it does significantly undermine the theories that the pilot was suicidal and steered into the plane. In order for that to be the case, the pilot would have had to know exactly where that plane was while somehow the instructor was in the dark, and then veer into it last minute. That seems highly unlikely.[/quote]

Hmmm.  I don’t know about that.  This was “annual training” so a box check all pilots have to do yearly.  So not sure this was a training helicopter that allowed for copilot to take over controls. These weren’t pilots in training/flight school [/quote]

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