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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s chaos in every single branch of the government right now. But sure blame the airport.[/quote]

This is human error, not the government’s fault. But how can you not put some blame on the airport? It’s literally their job to manage planes landing.  Saying to the helicopter “do you see the plane” when there are multiple close by planes, including one close enough to crash into them, seems like mismanagement of air traffic to me[/quote]

Looks like miscommunication was the biggest factor. The helicopter pilots appear to be focused on air traffic from runway 1. Looks like they waited for an airplane to take off and then crossed. This is a very common route for military helicopters coming up from Ft. Belvoir. But unbeknownst to them, minutes earlier the flight from Wichita had been directed to use the much less frequently used runway 33 instead of runway 1. So it looks like the Army pilots were focused on the wrong plane since their attention was on runway 1.

Clearly, there will need to be new procedures for Reagan, particularly at night. Too much air traffic and too many blinking lights in the night sky to be relying on visual confirmation.   [/quote]

Right after 9/11, we had the opportunity to move Reagan airport outside the beltway.

We failed to make the right choice back then.  There should not be a civilian airport inside the beltway.[/quote]

Where would it have gone?

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