Experts Blame Blackhawk Helicopter Pilots for DC Plane Crash
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Blackhawk Helicopter Pilots May Not Have Seen American Airline: Experts
By Raisina Correspondent
New Delhi, February 2: Aviation experts have faulted the Blackhawk helicopter pilots for the air crash over the frigid Potomac River on Wednesday night. Experts have reasoned that the Blackhawk helicopter pilots may have not actually seen the incoming American airline.
The media reports quoted the radio conversations in which the Blackhawk helicopter pilots admitted sighting the incoming American airline. In the last radio audio of the conversation with the Blackhawk helicopter pilots, experts decoded that they assured “visual separation”.
“While they committed for visual separation, meaning that the helicopter will stay away from the path of the incoming airline, the military chopper went on to crash into the passenger flight,” said a civil aviation expert.
The civil aviation experts also asserted that the fault lied with the Blackhawk military helicopter pilots for ignoring the instructions of the air traffic controller (ATC) at the Reagen National Airport in Washington D. C.
The military helicopter within seconds of the last conversation with the ATC crashed into the passenger airline which was on a descent for landing at the airport. Sixty-four passengers, including the crew, perished in the mid-air crash.
The debris of the Blackhawk military helicopter and the American airline went down into the frozen Potomac River. The local officials are facing harsh weather conditions in retrieving bodies of the victims. They have ruled out possibility of any survivors.
In the aftermath of the mid-air crash, the political leadership of the US sought to blame the air traffic controller. US President Donald Trump even went on to blame the diversity recruitment for the air crash.
Trump reasoned that talented people who can deal with complex tasks should be in command of the ATC. Trump remarks invited wrath of national transportation officials for recklessness in making the statement.
The civil aviation experts told The Raisina Hills that “it’s troubling that the pilots of the Blackhawk military helicopters didn’t act on messages of the ATC and stayed on the path of the airline. This could have been possible only in the event of them sighting a wrong plane.”
Reports said that relatives of victims are still awaiting bodies to be retrieved from the Potomac River. It has also been reported that the Blackhawk military helicopter was in air as a part of an exercise for the emergency evacuation of senior officials in events of crisis.
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