The three members of the "fairly experienced" crew ... helmet weight." More:'NOT GOOD!': Trump brings unusual approach to plane crash in first big crisis of his presidency The helicopter, a ...
Investigators are probing evidence from the DC plane crash, including the Black Hawk crew's helmets and equipment, to determine whether the soldiers were wearing night vision goggles.
Central to the Washington mid-air collision inquiry is whether the military helicopter crew ... The Sikorsky Black Hawk, its crew conducting a night proficiency flight, was nearing the airport ...
TING SHEN/AFP via Getty The American Airlines flight ... helicopter over the Potomac River as it approached Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The passenger plane had 60 passengers and ...
The Army helicopter was on an "annual proficiency training flight" at the time of the crash, Hegseth said in a video message he later posted. "It was a fairly experienced crew that was doing a ...
and the crew chief was also said to have hundreds of hours of flight time. Koziol said that given the short duration of most helicopter flights, the number of hours they had flown showed how ...
Koziol said that due to the short duration of helicopter flights in the Army, the combined 1,500 plus hours of flight experience between the three pilots onboard is especially noteworthy, further ...
Three soldiers were on board the helicopter ... crew member “could manage that helicopter by themselves.” The instructor pilot, who was serving as pilot-in-command, had about 1,000 flight ...