Armed Forces Press By L Todd Wood
As I mentioned in another article, I have several thousand hours in high-performance rotary-wing aircraft flying for a Tier One Special Operations unit.
Mid-air collisions do happen.
In my experience, they typically happen on a no-moon night with very low visibility while on night-vision googles, during low visibility in bad weather, while flying in close formation, or when one aircraft makes a violent movement and a close-by aircraft cannot move in time to avoid a collision.
In fact, I am not aware of a collision where an aircraft is on a straight flight path, for a long time, on a clear night, and hits another aircraft essentially flying at the same altitude with massive landing and navigation lights illuminated.
There were two pilots and a crew chief on board. The crew chief’s job is to scan for other aircraft when he’s not busy.
The co-pilot should have also been scanning constantly (DC is a busy operational area and any well-trained crew would be doing so).
I think the question at least needs to be investigated as to whether this was a suicide crash…
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