Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., a retired Army officer, told Newsmax on Thursday that he doesn’t understand how the collision between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter happened Wednesday at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C.
“As a flight surgeon in the Army’s premier special operations aviation unit, I just don’t see how this could happen,” Green said on “Wake Up America.” “This is probably the most de-conflicted airspace in the country, with the amount of radar to protect, of course, the president and our seat of government. So, when did ATC [air traffic control] recognize there was a potential conflict? Those are questions we have to look into, what the pilots actually saw in that military aircraft. Looks like they kind of came up from behind or to the side of the commercial aircraft.
“Typically, in these types of things, and I’ve done these investigations, the human side of it, the pilot’s health and all that stuff, when a crash happens … it’s always multiple errors that lead to these kinds of things. It’s not just one thing. But that’s what the NTSB [National Transportation Safety Bureau] will do. They’ll dig into it and figure it out. But I’m just amazed at how it could happen in this airspace and with a military aircraft.”
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