To add on to this: Here is the ATC recording from the time of the collision, though the military is on UHF and this is only VHF so it’s still a bit tricky to fully decipher what happened
Skip to around 16:30 to get to the involved aircraft
The CRJ is Blue Streak 5342 and the black hawk is PAT 25
To add on to this: Here is the ATC recording from the time of the collision, though the military is on UHF and this is only VHF so it’s still a bit tricky to fully decipher what happened
Skip to around 16:30 to get to the involved aircraft
The CRJ is Blue Streak 5342 and the black hawk is PAT 25
https://archive.liveatc.net/kdca/KDCA1-Twr-Jan-30-2025-0130Z.mp3
The heli was instructed to visually pass behind the CRJ, but beyond that it’s unclear how they managed to fuck it up so badly