As a pilot myself, it's inconceivable that tower would give clearance to cross an active runway's glidepath under any conditions, much less at night, with a commercial airliner on short-final to an airport practically down-town in the nation's capital -- and to a military helicopter on a night-training mission wearing night-vision goggles that restrict peripheral vision 80%!
No tower would give me that clearance on a clear day in Tulsa, if I was the only thing on radar!
But apparently that's considered routine at Reagan International. And whichever gooberment moron approved that should do hard time for the manslaughter of 67 innocent lives.
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