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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Sounds like 2 near misses in the last 3 years where airliners had to take evasive action to avoid helicopters at DCA
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Indeed. And it's not just DCA... multiple major airports in the US. It's been a chronic problem for years and because of a bunch of unrelated political nonsense and blame games I fear the real root issues that caused this accident will not be properly addressed, i.e. the archaic rules that allow a helicopter to be that close to a landing an airliner and the even worse rules that allowed the helicopter pilot to assume responsibility of visual separation from the plane.