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Originally Posted by BrianL99
The part about the helicopter being too high, I get it. Not every one in the BH is necessarily looking at the Instruments and at least one person in the "back" probably couldn't even see the instruments (being at 350' instead of 200', isn't readily obvious by looking out the window).
Identifying another aircraft in the area, is just a basic, human activity. Everyone in the aircraft was privy to ATC communications. Human nature suggests that when they were asked if the "have the CRJ in view", all 3 would have looked for it and confirmed to ATC and each other, they have it in sight. They confirmed a visual, twice.
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My guess is that they were looking at the other plane in the sky and not in what could have been a blind spot above them. We are talking about a few seconds to notice that plane.
Personally I do not think helicopters should be anywhere near flight paths of planes.