Flight to Reagan Airport forced to avoid the helicopter day for DC collision
DC Air Traffic
Airplane avoided helicopter via DC
1 day before catastrophe
Published
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.
The NTSB confirmed on Thursday evening that the black boxes of the plane have been restored and will be sent for analysis on the road at the NTSB LAB.
