Flight to Reagan Airport forced to avoid the helicopter day for DC collision

A flight to Reagan National Airport was forced to demolish its first landing due to helicopter activity in the DC area … a day before The catastrophic crash That left dozens of death.

Watch the video … Republic Airways Flight 4514 is clearly on a smooth track of Connecticut and starts its descent … and then turns around abruptly before touching.

In an audio recording published by Liveatc.netAir traffic control is heard warns the pilot … “There is a helicopter above Georgetown Northbound 300 feet.”

The pilot of the Twin engine Egraer Erj 175 responds immediately. They say they stop the descent and “go around” to climb to a height of 3000 feet.

“We had a RA with the helicopter traffic among us,” adds the pilot, referring to a resolution advice from the traffic salarm and the collision avoidance system (TCAS) … meant to warn pilots about the danger of a collision.

Close the call … but luckily the plane safely landed 13 minutes earlier than planned.

Of course, the flight 5342 from American Airlines had a different result … bumped with an army Black Hawk helicopter during his descent to Reagan National. All 64 People aboard the commercial flight And the 3 troops in the black hawk died.