but I want to caution that does not mean that’s what the Black Hawk crew was seeing on the barometric altimeters in the cockpit,” she said. “We are seeing conflicting information in the data ...
Less than 20 seconds before the collision, a radio transmission from the tower was audible on both cockpit voice recorders (CVR), directing the Black Hawk to "pass behind" the CRJ passenger plane.
Jennifer Homendy, NTSB’s chairman, said Friday that “ ‘pass behind the’ may not have been received by the crew,” based on its review of the Black Hawk’s cockpit voice recorder ...
“That doesn’t mean that’s what the Black Hawk crew was seeing on the barometric altimeters in the cockpit.” “We are looking at the possibility that there may be bad data,” she adde ...
A three-person Army Black Hawk helicopter crew may not have received accurate altitude readings in their cockpit or an important transmission from air traffic control before the deadly crash with ...
She said while they are confident the Black Hawk was flying at 278ft at the time of the collision, this may not have been what the helicopter crew were seeing in the cockpit. “We are seeing ...
National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said the recording from the Black Hawk helicopter cockpit suggests the crew may have missed the key instruction just before the Jan ...
The black box voice recorder from the Black Hawk helicopter was recovered on January 31 with no signs of exterior damage. The helicopter had a combined cockpit voice recorder and digital flight ...
So, between the instrument flying and the night vision goggles, the Black Hawk was operating in an inherently vulnerable position, with high potential to miss details outside of the cockpit.
The crew of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet over the Potomac River last month may not have heard parts of two radio transmissions about the location of the plane ...