"Bombshell new report reveals who made fatal mistake that caused Black Hawk to collide with jet and kill 67".
The pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter that collided with the American Airlines passenger airplane did not comply with directions to change course seconds before the fatal incident, a bombshell new report has revealed.
On the night of January 29, Army Black Hawk pilot Capt. Rebecca Lobach was conducting an annual flight evaluation with her co-pilot Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, who was serving as her flight instructor.
Three months on, new details published by The New York Times revealed that the pilot made more than one mistake leading to one of the worst catastrophes in aviation history.
Not only was Lobach flying her Black Hawk too high, but in the final moments before the impact, she failed to take advice and instruction from her co-pilot to switch course.
I am not a pilot, but what I've read said that the check pilot (a warrant officer) should have taken control of the aircraft when the captain failed to respond.
ReplyDeleteWhy he didn't will really never be known, but ... ... he would have had to confront a female officer. And the military culture has degraded such that confrontation is becoming a lost skill.