Passenger plane from Wichita collides with DC police helicopter minutes ago arriving to Dulles

Early reports of 60 onboard plane from Kansas.

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Really terrible, river is much colder than usual since we've been in a cold streak. Landing towards the northwest on the shorter runway 33. Hopefully there are some survivors - it would have been very close to the ground but at nighttime not sure how you find 60 people in the water. I suspect too low to the ground for TCAS to engage and unclear if a chopper would even have TCAS.
 
It collided with a UH60... that's an Army helicopter.. yikes
 
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Supposedly the helicopter had a priority person on board... could be a member of the cabinet or senator etc....
 
I was in the police chopper as an observer east of LAX over the 710 freeway. We were at the authorized altitude and there was a low overcast. I look up to the right and a jet liner comes out of the overcast and went just over us. I could see rivets plain as day. A very unpleasant experience. The jet wasn't supposed be below the approach attitude but the pilot decided to make a visual approach and damn near killed everybody.
 
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Sledog said:
I was in the police chopper as an observer east of LAX over the 710 freeway. We were at the authorized altitude and there was a low overcast. I look up to the right and a jet liner comes out of the overcast and went just over us. I could see rivets plain as day. A very unpleasant experience. The jet wasn't supposed be below the approach attitude but the pilot decided to make a visual approach and damn near killed everybody.
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Yikes
 
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