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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Why did it do that be my question.
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An airliner on final at 350' is about 30 seconds from wheels down. It doesn't make one damn bit of difference if that chopper was at 200' or 350'. The legal vertical separation at ALL altitudes is 500 FEET! And that chopper shouldn't have be crossing the active runway's glidepath at ANY altitude lower than 14,500', anyway. That's the typical ceiling of class B airspace under the control of a major towered airport.
I don't care what altitude it was at, crossing a commercial airliner's glidepath on short final is idiotic and ordinarily illegal. Doing it at night with night vision goggles is stupid squared. ATC granting clearance to do such a dumbass thing is criminal, and whoever told that controller it was OK for the army to play in traffic near the nation's capital airport should be liable for 67 counts of criminally negligent manslaughter.