Everything I’ve seen this was on the helicopter. There’s another clip of helicopter frequency at DCA where they report traffic in sight and request (and are approved) visual separation. Meaning it’s now on the pilot of the helicopter to keep away from the plane. They essentially said “yeah, I see it and won’t hit it.”
Everything I heard from ATC they all sounded quite competent, the tower moved immediately to redirecting all the other planes without hesitation, you can barely tell anything happened. The pilot of the plane couldn’t have done anything they were near landing very close to the ground and wouldn’t even be considering traffic at that point. Helicopter shouldn’t have run into the plane it said it saw. I’d also want to know wtf it was doing lurking around the end of a runway at a major airport where it looks like at least four planes were inbound.
Everything I’ve seen this was on the helicopter. There’s another clip of helicopter frequency at DCA where they report traffic in sight and request (and are approved) visual separation. Meaning it’s now on the pilot of the helicopter to keep away from the plane. They essentially said “yeah, I see it and won’t hit it.”
Everything I heard from ATC they all sounded quite competent, the tower moved immediately to redirecting all the other planes without hesitation, you can barely tell anything happened. The pilot of the plane couldn’t have done anything they were near landing very close to the ground and wouldn’t even be considering traffic at that point. Helicopter shouldn’t have run into the plane it said it saw. I’d also want to know wtf it was doing lurking around the end of a runway at a major airport where it looks like at least four planes were inbound.