A plane crash in the United States. Expert: The darkest is under the lantern

PSA Airlines passenger aircraft He collided with a military helicopter. close Reagan National Airport in Washington. A passenger plane was flying from the town of Wichita, Kansas and was approaching landing.

Many services have been deployed to the site, which proceed to carry out rescue operations – so far 19 bodies have been recovered from the Potomac River. 60 passengers and 4 crew members were travelling by passenger aircraftThere were 3 soldiers aboard a military helicopter.

How is it that an incidental like this happened right at the airport? Where did the military chopper come from? Who's to blame? Could this tragedy have been avoided? Among others, we address these questions to an experienced pilot, lecturer of Collegium Civitas, mjra Michael Fischer.

– There is simply a very advanced volume of traffic of all possible aircraft. They decision rather unusually, due to the fact that this is the capital of the state, so there is average air traffic, police helicopters fly there, and, as you can see, military helicopters – says Major Fischer.

– Air traffic services should not let this to happen.. There was a night erstwhile it's not that easy to watch. You can see what kind of lights are, but the assessment of the distance to the lights is hard – says the expert who thinks There is most likely a human error.Although, of course, the details of the disaster will be explained by the peculiar committee.

But how is it that specified an event occurs in the capital of 1 of the most powerful countries in the world, where hundreds of flights take place all day and the best specialists work there?

– The darkest is under the light – Major Fischer tells us. – You can see that there are not full regulated procedures in the movement zone. Because how can helicopters be allowed to fly perfectly across the approach way of passenger aircraft, at the altitude at which they are on approach to landing? There should be clear rules for determining these paths. It can be done over it, under it, but not on this way – he convinces.

Meanwhile Pentagon stated that a military helicopter, which was flown by 3 soldiers, was on a training flight. Is it reasonable to presume that there was a little experienced pilot behind the helicopter?

– Training flight and training flight are different. Americans call it "training", but details are important. The training flight is made to teach something, while the training flight is to improve something that you already know. Training takes place with either an teacher or alone, due to the fact that specified flights are besides performed during the training," said Major Fiszer.

According to the expert, even if the chopper pilot is on a training or training flight, it is monitored normally. – specified a flight has an established plan, listens to air traffic controllers, and before the flight has to submit a flight plan. Which is how it's going to go, where it's going, how advanced it's going, who it's going to keep in contact with, and much more. This is simply a controlled airspace, this is not a free-flight space,” says Interii.

"The plane was on an perfect and regular line of approach to the airport. The chopper has been flying right on the plane for a long time. It's a clean night, the lights on the plane are glowing, why didn't the chopper rise, fall, turn?” he asked on the platform fact Social Donald Trump.

The American president besides wondered “Why didn't the control tower tell the chopper crew what to do alternatively of asking if he saw the plane‘. "This is simply a bad situation that looks like it can be prevented," Trump concluded.

– I peculiarly agree with Donald Trump – this is Major Fischer. However, it adds that the word "control tower" is utilized besides generally. The tower controls movements with visibility. I think it was more crucial in this case to control the approach, so radar control. For people, “the tower” is everything, or control of the area is called the tower, the proximity control is called the tower, the TSA is called the tower – he explains.

The Interia talker emphasizes that this not the first collision of 2 aircraft. Moreover, they happen rather regularly. - There are cases. W India Il-76 collided with Saudi Jumbo Jet, in Los Angeles on a landing approach a tiny sports aircraft collided with DC-9. W Poland We besides had cases like the collision of 2 helicopters in the air or the collision of 2 Mig 21s. This happens rather often, according to Major Fischer.

Meanwhile, air traffic is considered 1 of the safest means of transport. Suffice to say that the service forpilota.pl states that the probability of death as a consequence of an air accident is 1 to 11 million.

You've got to be very unlucky. The roads are much worse, and especially in Poland – says Major Fischer.