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American Airlines crash at Reagan international 29 Jan 2025

Tracking YZT, in Canada, but I wasn’t sure about the US, other than I remember while conducting an IF approach to LGA in a helo, the controller asked if I wanted a visual approach (min’s just supported an acceptance, but I wasn’t thrilled with having my MA cancelled in the airspace), so I asked what the intended MA directions would be, and he said it wouldn’t be a problem, runway heading to XXX then vectors, so I accepted the visual. In the DCA case, I think the hair on the back of my neck would be standing up as the helo, knowing the pinch point at BOLLING, and having done the daytime routing on 4 earlier and knowing there are no obstacles between Hains Point and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, I’d be ‘comfortably below’ 200’.
you asked a great question for the controller: what's my alternate MA. Not a lot of flight crews think of that when they accept a visual and they should. It doesn't take a lot to put one back into the cloud with nowhere to go: for example preceding traffic that doesn't clear in time.
 
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