The video isn’t coming up. All I see is a small box with a red X in it.
OK, FR pilots, who is at fault?
Watching the collision a number of times, it’s hard to see how either one failed to see the proximity of the other. The plane just “appears” in the video (which is following the helicopter’s path), but the perspective implies it should have been in the helicopter’s perspective long before. and vice versa.
Bkmk
YouTube link...
Home Video Captures Hudson River Midair Collision Of Helicopter/Plane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPKy35EFj4I
Pilot stuff ping.
I watched the video a few times, and there’s a few things that just aren’t clear to me, even seeing the video. I can’t quite tell who was overtaking whom. It appears to me that the helo was rising up beneath the fixed wing... but I can’t quite make out whether he came from behind or whether he rose up in front of the fixed wing.
It looks like maybe the helo was rising up under the fixed, with the fixed overtaking (or crossing?) high and behind the helo’s right shoulder. The helo pilot would be in the left seat... so it’s a bad blind spot for him. The fixed wing pilot only caught the glimpse of the helo rising under him at the (too late) last second.
My gut tells me that of course if either one had seen the other with enough time to react the crash wouldn’t have happened. I wonder if it isn’t a combination of blind spots, that in a stroke of really bad luck joined to make a crash.