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Re:Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near R... by hluska on Thursday January 30, 2025 @03:14AM (#42875946)
This comment was written by a US Coast Guard helicopter pilot. It gives a lot of information on how the two aircraft should have been able to share the space and some speculation on what went wrong:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1idba8i/comment/m...

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Re:Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near R... by Animats on Thursday January 30, 2025 @07:15AM (#42877072)
That makes sense.

A helicopter instructor suggests that possibly the helicopter pilots, who were told to go behind an aircraft that was landing, were looking at the previous aircraft that was landing.[1] That's just speculation at this point.

[1] https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2025/01/29/reagan-national...

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Re:Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near R... by GoblinSlayer on Thursday January 30, 2025 @08:44AM (#42877571)
They could use the car autopilot solution: simply negotiate your coordinates with nearby traffic instead of trying to parse malformed visual data.
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