NTSB: DC Plane Crash 2 ALARMING Concerns Preliminary Report

The DC Plane crash NTSB Preliminary Report with 2 urgent safety concerns to the FAA is analyzed. These NTSB recommendations stemmed from events that led to the DC Plane Crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 with the Army Blackhawk helicopter on January 29, 2025. The NTSB news conference highlights are analyzed. You will see all sorts of analyses to give you a better understanding of what caused the DC plane crash of the American Flight 5342 CJR plane.

📺 NTSB air crash investigation Preliminary report: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/DCA25MA108%20Prelim.pdf
📺 Read the NTSB's urgent recommendation report on mitigating the risk of midair collisions at DCA:
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AIR2501.pdf
📺 NTSB air crash investigation Page: "Midair Collision PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 Airplane and Sikorsky UH-60 Military Helicopter" https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/DCA25MA108.aspx

Near Midair Collision Events at DCA:
Review of information gathered from voluntary safety reporting programs along with FAA data regarding encounters between helicopters and commercial aircraft near DCA from 2011 through 2024 indicated that a vast majority of the reported events occurred on approach to landing. Initial analysis found that at least one TCAS resolution advisory (RA) was triggered per month due to proximity to a helicopter. In over half of these instances, the helicopter may have been above the route altitude restriction.

Two-thirds of the events occurred at night. A review of commercial operations (instrument flight rules departures or arrivals) at DCA between October 2021 and December 2024 indicated a total of 944,179 operations. During that time, there were 15,214 occurrences between commercial airplanes and helicopters, with a lateral separation distance of less than 1 nm and vertical separation of less than 400 ft.

85 recorded events involved a lateral separation less than 1,500 ft and vertical separation less than 200 ft. The data indicated that, between 2018 and 2024, runway 1 accounted for about 57% of arrivals, runway 19 accounted for about 38% of arrivals, runway 33 accounted for about 4% of arrivals, and runway 15 accounted for less than 1 percent of arrivals at DCA. Runway 15 accounted for about 5% of departures from DCA.

00:00 Introduction to NTSB Preliminary Report with 2 Alarming concerns
00:31 2 Alarming Concerns NTSB Discovered DC Plane Crash
03:05 NTSB Urgent Recommendations to FAA
09:39 NTSB air crash investigation Preliminary Report DC Plane Crash
13:41 NTSB Photos helicopter rear rotor embedded
17:56 What's the real root cause of DC plane crash?