DC airplane accident: NTSB to offer updates in examination

Detectives will certainly provide updates Tuesday in the probe right into the terrible accident in between an American Airlines airplane and a united state Military Black Hawk helicopter that eliminated all 67 individuals aboard both airplane.

The accident took place on the evening of Jan. 29 when the PSA Airline companies Bombardier CRJ700 local jet, which had actually left from Wichita, Kansas, with 64 individuals aboard, will land at Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Terminal. The 3 bear up the helicopter were performing a yearly training trip and evening vision goggle check trip for among the pilots at the time when both airplane clashed.

Both airplane dove right into the Potomac River.

National Transport Safety And Security Board Chairman Jennifer Homendy stated last month that there was no sign the helicopter team might inform there was an upcoming crash.

The soldiers might have had “poor information” on the elevation from their altimeter, as the pilots had varying elevations in the secs prior to the accident, Homendy stated. One helicopter pilot believed they went to 400 feet and the various other idea they went to 300 feet.

The transmission from the tower that advised the helicopter to go behind the airplane might not have actually been listened to by the team due to the fact that the pilot might have keyed her radio at the very same 2nd and tipped on the transmission from ATC, the NTSB included.

The Black Hawk team was most likely putting on evening vision safety glasses throughout the trip, Homendy stated.

The NTSB will certainly hold a press conference at 2 p.m. ET Tuesday.