The helicopter was headed on a roughly 25-mile trip from the traffic accident to the hospital when the aircraft was diverted to Andrews Air Force Base late Saturday because of bad weather. As they approached, their runway location was changed and the pilot radioed that he was having trouble assessing his surroundings. He again asked for assistance with the landing, and that was the last air traffic controllers heard from him.
first of all, all pilots are professional; windsheer is not a controllable effort by the faa nor is bad weather. being diverted to another airfield happens everyday, so that again, is not an faa error. sounds to me like they don’t want it to be pilot error that caused the crash. so, what caused the crash? ntsb has to investigate.
Having been diverted to, presumably, an unfamiliar landing field, with it possibly having been dark due to the bad weather or night flying, or both, the pilot could’ve hit some high-tension wires, or encountered wind shear…
“because of the “negligence” of Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers”….
so what did the atc do wrong? what negligence caused this accident?
Doesn’t the FAA have sovereign immunity?
From Fox News:
The helicopter was headed on a roughly 25-mile trip from the traffic accident to the hospital when the aircraft was diverted to Andrews Air Force Base late Saturday because of bad weather. As they approached, their runway location was changed and the pilot radioed that he was having trouble assessing his surroundings. He again asked for assistance with the landing, and that was the last air traffic controllers heard from him.
first of all, all pilots are professional; windsheer is not a controllable effort by the faa nor is bad weather. being diverted to another airfield happens everyday, so that again, is not an faa error. sounds to me like they don’t want it to be pilot error that caused the crash. so, what caused the crash? ntsb has to investigate.
Having been diverted to, presumably, an unfamiliar landing field, with it possibly having been dark due to the bad weather or night flying, or both, the pilot could’ve hit some high-tension wires, or encountered wind shear…