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Anonymous ID: d52f88 Feb. 2, 2025, 2:20 a.m. No.22490483   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0558 >>0618 >>1038

>>22490456

>>22490456

>Officials said the control tower recorded the Black Hawk helicopter flying at an altitude of 200 feet at the time of the collision, in line with its maximum allowed altitude for its flight path.

>However, data from the passenger jet’s flight recorder showed the collision occurred at an altitude of around 325 feet, plus or minus 25 feet.

 

If the tower and the Blackhawk were both indicating 200ft then this would suggest that the passenger plane had their altimeter set to the wrong barometric setting giving them a false reading.

Anonymous ID: d52f88 Feb. 2, 2025, 3:32 a.m. No.22490579   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0581 >>0586 >>0675

>>22490558

The last minute switch from runway 01 to runway 33 may have contributed to cockpit overload for the pilots and they may have forgotten to switch altimeter from QNH to QFE.

It would also put the plane 125ft lower than the helo expected making it more likely to be merged into the city light scale, and also cause the Blackhawk crew to misidentify the next plane in the pattern, roughly where they expected the plane to be, for the one they collided with.

Pure supposition on my part.