On Friday, the army confirmed that the military air traffic monitors had lost a briefly connected an army helicopter, as it approached the Pentagon on the flight, which caused two commercial aircraft to land in early May at Washington Airport.
The army official confirmed that on the first of May, the Pentagon Tower was connected to the Black Hawk helicopter for about 20 seconds as it came to the ground.
Braman said that the air traffic monitors at the airport aborted the Air Lines Airbus A319 lines during the Black Hawk initial flight towards the Pentagon because they realized that both planes would approach the Pentagon almost at the same time.
Due to the loss of communication for 20 seconds, the Pentagon Tower did not wipe the black falcon to land, so the Pentagon helicopter flew for the second time. Braman said that the airport traffic monitors decided to thwart the landing of a second plane, which is the Republic Embraer E170 airline, because they had no confident solution from Black Hawk.
The reason for the lost contact with Black Hawk is believed to be that a temporary antenna was in a location that did not maintain contact with the helicopter as it came to landing in the Pentagon. However, the army issued a release, saying that its initial review “did not find any deviations from the approved aircraft paths and the lack of risk of air traffic.” Dean. General Matthew Bramman, head of the army aircraft, told AP in an exclusive interview that the antenna was created during the construction of a new control tower and was now transferred to the Pentagon roof.
The army said that the plane’s location was continuously broadcast throughout its flight through the ADS-B. In initial reports on the decline that was frustrated, an official of the Federal Aviation Administration suggested that the army helicopter was on a “wonderful road”.
But the ADSB-Out data, which the army shared with AP on Friday, shows that the crew that was wandering on the course of the approved flight-directly to the I-395 highway, which is called Road 5, and then revolves between the Pentagon.
The army said that the air traffic monitors at Reagan Airport had directed “Go-Arounds” to the two commercial aircraft “from a clear abundance of caution. The first show occurred before Black Hawk arrived at the Pentagon helicopters and resulted in “a problem in the sequence of air traffic by DCA”, according to the army, and the second occurred during the subsequent traffic pattern of Black Hawk and was dependent on “localized data speculations from the heritage track systems.”
Braman said that federal air traffic controllers inside Washington Airport were not a good solution on the helicopter site. Black Hawk was transmitting the data that should have given control units its exact location, but Braman said that FAA officials told him last week that the data obtained by controllers of multiple extracts and sensors were not decisive, with some of them deviating up to three quarters of miles.
“This certainly led to the confusion of air traffic control as they were,” said Braman.
Black Hawk had no passengers.
The aborted landing on May 1, which was informed by the Associated Press for the first time, added to the general lock about the ongoing documentary invitations between government helicopters and commercial aircraft near Collision In January between a passenger plane and an army helicopter killed 67 people.
In March, the Federal Aviation Administration announced that helicopters would be Permanently From flying on the same way where the collision occurred. After the May 1 incident, the army stopped all flights inside and outside the Pentagon, where it works with FAA to address safety issues.
The Federal Aviation Administration declined to comment on whether its control units were unable to obtain a good solution on the Black Hawk website due to their equipment problems, noting the continuous investigation of the investigation of the National Transportation Safety Council.
Transport Minister Sean Duffy is pressing the agency’s update air traffic control systems and equipment, which has failed in the airport’s airspace at Newark Liberty Airport in critical moments in recent weeks.
Eleanor Watson contributed to this report.
