Helicopters flying through that corridor have to stay at 200’ or lower. They think this one was at 350’ at the time of the impact.
The 200’ ceiling is specifically in place to avoid this exact incident from happening, so planes landing at DCA will safely pass above. But there’s also the matter of the runway change which caused the jet to encroach into the helicopter corridor.
What’s the title of the book and the movie… a series of unfortunate events. 
Ohhhhhh
Whoops. This means they will now practice even more.
I have a hunch who they were practicing evacuating.
I am not so sure he would want to go that way, if push comes to shove.
That would be the bloke that doesnt want dwarfs at ATC?
NTSB briefing just said that tower recordings show the Blackhawk was at 200ft and airplane flight recorder shows it was at 325ft. One of them is obviously wrong which is more scary than someone made a mistake.
They can work out the real height of the heli from the video recording to find the error.
The ADSB data from the playback seem to show the helo at over 300’ and climbing.
I know that ADSB can be somewhat unreliable at times, but I tend to believe it in this case.
Footage of that medical learjet crashing in Philly
“All six people aboard were from Mexico.”
Oh great, I’m sure our dear leader will come out with something eloquent and profound about this one.
Radalt or Palt on the FDR?
You could be forgiven were thinking it was actively flying down based on that footage.
Yeah how about that 1 in philly.
Far out!
I believe the NTSB agent misspoke and it was clarified after, the radar scope shows the Blackhawk around 350 FT at the time of collision.
Great thanks. You’d like to think those systems are rock solid.
Collision occurred at 325 feet (+/- 25 feed)
Rugged place to go down in the middle of winter.
