Midair collision between Helicopter and CRJ (AA5342) at Washington (DCA)

[Quickstatus]

Was the heli actually on route 1 at the time of collision?.

 

[Quickstatus]

Clearly in this case the traffic was given far too early, I would have given the Blackhawk a restriction to hold north, when the CRJ got closer it would have got to the point where they could have safely confirmed identification and passed behind. Assuming no NVGs in use - and the helicopter had a controller with capacity to monitor it.

That seems an uninformed casual observer to involve a lot of potential failure points. A system should be resilient enough a few failures does not bring the whole thing down

 

[justinbrett]

That seems an uninformed casual observer to involve a lot of potential failure points. A system should be resilient enough a few failures does not bring the whole thing down

This is tower control bread and butter.