A 3-D model created by The Times visualizes the helicopter pilots’ field of view minutes before a fatal crash with a jet in Washington. By Helmuth Rosales, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Mika Gröndahl and ...
From the perspective of the helicopter cockpit, the lights of the incoming American Airlines jet could have also been ...
That altimeter uses a radio beam to show the helicopter’s altitude above ground level, but it may not have been what the pilots of the helicopter were referencing at the time of the crash ...