Experts are questioning the anomalies in latest DC air traffic disaster.
On Wednesday evening an American Airlines passenger plane and a US Army Black Hawk helicopter collided in mid-air near Washington’s Ronald Reagan Airport.
Sixty passengers and four crew members from the plane and three Black Hawk helicopter personnel are all feared dead.
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The aviation world as well as the public are struggling to understand how a deadly mid-air collision between a passenger plane and military helicopter was able to happen in what one expert described as “the most controlled bit of airspace in the world”.
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The call sign for the doomed Black Hawk helicopter has also sparked mystery.
The Black Hawk was marked as a PAT 25, which stands for priority air transport and is normally reserved for when the Army is conducting VIP missions, such as having officials onboard. However there were no officials aboard.
The Mail Online reports: The Army has confirmed no officials were onboard the aircraft, which was carrying three soldiers, a standard sized crew, according to Fox News Journalist Jennifer Griffin.
The military aircraft was conducting a training flight, according to Joint Task Force-National Capitol Region Media Chief Heather Chairez. It belonged to B Company, 12th Aviation Battalion out of Fort Belvoir in Virginia.
However, some aren’t buying those claims, and question what the crew was carrying onboard for it be designated as a PAT 25.
Jacq Cerra, who is in the Army, is one of the people questioning it, saying on TikTok: ‘I’m telling you right now – and they can kill me for saying it – under no circumstances is a military helicopter, especially a f**king Black Hawk, accidentally crashing into a commercial plane.
‘There’s no way,’ she continued before bringing up the call sign. ‘What’s on that helicopter, you know?’
A TikTok commenter named Uche, who claimed to be a Marine veteran, also thought the crash was weird, writing under Cerra’s video: ‘You’re 100 percent correct, those Black Hawks move damn near omni-directionally and the pilots are top-tier, a lot of questions.’
A few minutes before the jet was to land, air traffic controllers asked American Airlines Flight 5342 if it could do so on a shorter runway, and the pilots agreed.
Controllers cleared the jet to land and flight tracking sites showed the plane adjust its approach to the new runway.
Less than 30 seconds before the crash, an air traffic controller asked a helicopter if it had the arriving plane in sight.
The controller made another radio call to the helicopter moments later, saying ‘PAT 25 pass behind the CRJ’ – apparently telling the chopper to wait for the Bombardier CRJ-701 twin-engine jet to pass.
There was no reply. Seconds after that, the aircraft collided.
Eerie radar footage showed the Black Hawk helicopter cut through the airspace from the opposite direction under cover of darkness, with both aircrafts seemingly unaware of the other’s presence.
They slammed into one another just 400ft above ground, erupting in a violent explosion before plunging into the freezing Potomac River below.
Veteran, military and civilian air traffic controllers have all said that the DC disaster was extremely suspicious & beyond highly irregular.
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