The Pentagon lost contact with military helicopter 1. Maja flight, which causes 2 aircraft to break DC landing star-news.press/wp

The military controllers in the circulation briefly lost contact with the military helicopter, as he approached the flight that caused that two commercial nozzles were transferred at Washington airport, confirmed the news in Washington on Friday.

The military official confirmed that it was 1. May Pentagon Tower lost contact with the Hawk’s black helicopter for about 20 seconds as it came to the ground.

FAA Airport Controllers At the airport, Airbus Airbus A319 have broken the Black Hawka to the Pentagon because they realized that AVI would approach the Pentagon at the same time, Brig. General Matthew Braman, the head of the airlier army, told an associate in the exclusive interview.

Due to the loss of a contact of 20 seconds, the Pentagon Tower did not clear the black hawk to land, so the helicopter circulated the Pentagon a second time. This is when the air traffic controllers have decided to interrupt the landing of another jet, the Republic Airways Embeer E170, because they did not have confident repair at the BLACK HAWKA location, Braman said.

The military was on Friday night on Friday evening that the cause of lost contact with a black falcon is that the temporary antenna is at a location that did not maintain contact with the helicopter because he entered the land in the Pentagon. The military said his initial review “found that there was no deviation from the approved flight trails and there is no risk of intersection of air traffic.”

Braman said AP that the antenna was placed during the construction of a new control tower and is now moved to the roof of the Pentagon.

The military said that the location of the airplane continuously broadcast during its flight through its automatic dependent-broadcast (ADS-B) output.

In the initial reporting on the breaking break, FAA official suggested that the military helicopter was on the “colorful route”. But the ADSB-OUT data shared on Friday, shows that the crew is closely on the approved flight path – directly on the corridor of the I-395 motorway, which is called the Pentagon Route.

Reagan National Airport The air air regulators have been directed “tours” for two commercial aircraft “from apparent abundance,” she said in his statement. The first prose happened before the Black Falcon arrived in the Pentagon Helipad and resulted in the DCA Tower Air Traffic Sector, and others occurred during the later form of Black Hawka and based on “conflicts of the monitoring system.”

Braman said that the federal air traffic controllers within the Washington Airport also did not have a good fix at the helicopter location. The black juice passed the data that should have given controllers a precise location, but the FAA officials told him in meetings that the data was that controllers received from more food and sensors, and some of them deviate from three-quarters of the mile.

“He certainly led to the confusion of air traffic control where they were,” Braman said.

Black Falcons did not carry any passengers.

Stop landing 1. May, AP, is added to the general discomfort around the continuous close calls between government helicopters and commercial planes near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after a deadly mixture collision In January between the passenger jet and the army of the helicopter who killed 67 people.

In March, the Federal Air Administration announced that helicopters would be permanently restricted from flying on the same route where a collision has occurred. After the incident 1. May, the military was pausing with all the flights in the Pentagon, because he works with FAA to address security issues.

FAA refused to comment whether its controllers could not be well fixed at the location of black hawks due to their own equipment, curing the current collision investigation to the National Transport Security Committee.

NTSB official said the news of CBS on Friday that the Agency was not addressed to the findings of the armies and only only find out for them after they reported from the linked press.

“NTSB leads this investigation,” said NTSB official. .

Sean Trost Secrey Sean Duffy is pushing to modernize their air traffic control systems and equipment that did not fail the controllers responsible for Newark Liberty International in critical moments in critical moments.

Kris van Cleave and Eleanor Watson contributed to this report.