Feith: ‘Terminology’ and ‘Phraseology’ Key in Potomac Air Collision Investigation
‘The answers that I would like to hear are to the questions that we had two days ago, and that is what altitude was the black hawk helicopter actually flying at’
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FEITH: "Typically you‘ll hear an air traffic controller say you have traffic at 1:00, two miles. That gives at least a direction and location of that traffic rather than do you have an RJ? Because when the air traffic or when the black hawk pilots responded, whoever was doing the radio calls said, we have the aircraft in sight. They didn‘t respond, saying, we have the RJ, we have the aircraft in sight. So it‘s terminology, it‘s phraseology. And of course, it is communication. And whether or not it was misunderstood, what was transpiring between the black hawk pilots and the air traffic controller regarding the traffic."
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