{"id":497,"date":"2025-08-05T16:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T16:10:50","slug":"black-hawk-pilots-final-conversation-before-deadly-mid-air-collision-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Black Hawk Pilot\u2019s Final Conversation Before Deadly Mid-Air Collision Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The haunting final moments between a U.S. Army Black Hawk pilot and her instructor have been revealed in a chilling cockpit recording\u2014just seconds before the helicopter collided mid-air with a passenger jet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Captain Rebecca Lobach was flying the Black Hawk above the allowed altitude limit when Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Eaves, her instructor, calmly said, <em>\u201cKinda come left for me, ma\u2019am.\u201d<\/em> That was the last instruction before the tragic crash with an American Airlines jet that killed all 67 people onboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigators say the helicopter was flying at over 300 feet\u2014far above the restricted 200-foot ceiling\u2014and missed a crucial warning from air traffic control. Why? Their radio transmission overlapped the tower\u2019s, cutting off the instruction meant to prevent the disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hearing exposed a cascade of failures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The helicopter\u2019s altitude warning system may have been offline.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Night vision goggles were being used, possibly affecting visibility.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The altimeter might have been faulty.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Air traffic control staffing was stretched thin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts described the crash as a tragic example of multiple small failures aligning to create a catastrophe\u2014one that could have been avoided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The haunting final moments between a U.S. Army Black Hawk pilot and her instructor have been revealed in a chilling cockpit recording\u2014just seconds before the helicopter collided&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}