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		dboreham 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter... Helicopter flies at 200ft. Planes landing have to traverse through 200ft. Therefore vertical separation impossible.

chinathrow 7 months ago [–]

This heli route is just crazy.

chinathrow 7 months ago | | [–]

Update: Found the routes in the FAA HELDC PDF

https://aeronav.faa.gov/visual/12-26-2024/PDFs/Balt-Wash_Hel...

dboreham 7 months ago | | [–]

Agreed. Seems that underlying all of this is "people doing inadvisable things because they can".

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