“Was Dimming Runway Lights to Blame? Captain Sully Reveals Alarming Theory Behind DC Plane Crash!”
The National Transportation Safety Board announced on Thursday that it was at the scene of the crash and was investigating.
Captain Sullenberger said he hoped that the cockpit voice recorder, the in-flight data recorder and air-traffic control radar data would shed light on what went wrong.
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Speaking on Good Morning America, the famous pilot discussed the air traffic control communications, in which the helicopter crew seemingly confirmed they were able to see the plane before the crash.
“The air traffic controller was able to relieve himself of the requirement to have him separate the airplanes, and the pilots would have to separate from each other visually by identifying the other aircraft and staying a safe distance away. Obviously, at some point, separation was tragically lost.”
“There would have been fewer ground lights visible over the water than over land at night,” explained Captain Sullenberger, who famously landed a plane in the Hudson River in 2009
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Captain Sullenberger stressed that the accident on Wednesday night came at an “exceptionally safe” moment in aviation history, but noted that more safeguards exist than people realize to maintain that safety, and a single mistake can trigger a domino effect, leading to a catastrophe.
“We’ve had to learn important lessons literally with blood too often, and we had finally gotten beyond that to where we could learn from incidents and not accidents.
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