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Two commercial flights approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport were ordered to do go-arounds Thursday due to an Army helicopter flying to the Pentagon. Via: NBC.

The NTSB called its recommendation urgent and said it results from the investigation of a collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter on Jan. 29.

The Black Hawk helicopter was from Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion, out of Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The crew was on a training qualification flight.

The commercial variant of the helicopter — the Sikorsky Black Hawk S-70 — which has a maximum gross weight (GW) of 22,000 lb, can achieve a maximum speed of 163 knots (302 km/hr or 187 mph).

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. Given ...

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The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, based at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, was flying a training mission in a dedicated helicopter route where it was not allowed to fly above 200 feet, according to a ...

Furthermore, the Black Hawk pilots may have had “bad data” on the altitude they were flying at outside Washington D.C. at the time of the Jan. 29 collision, which killed all 67 people aboard ...

The Black Hawk struck the CRJ700 at 20:48 as the passenger jet was moments from landing at Reagan National. The collision sent both aircraft plummeting in the Potomac River, killing all 64 people ...

The crew of an Army Black Hawk helicopter might not have heard key instructions from air traffic control before a collision with a passenger jet over the Potomac River on Jan. 29, the National ...