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I just listened to the ATC recording from immediately before the collision. ATC instructs the helicopter to pass behind the CRJ. I’m fairly certain a few minutes before that, ATC instructed the helicopter to maintain visual separation, which is common. They typically ask, “do you have the aircraft in sight” and if you respond in the affirmative they rely on you to maintain safe distance.

I should mention that in the recording you can only hear one side of the conversation, so I don’t know whether or not the helicopter said whether or not they had visual contact with the plane they collided with.

Either way it doesn’t seem to be the fault of ATC. Of course we’ll know more as additional information becomes available.

I don’t disagree with most of what you said, and I wont say big government and more regulation is the answer, but I’m super skeptical that small government would yield better results as it relates to public health. Is your point that government, big or small, won’t solve the problems we’re facing, so why waste the money? If so, that seems like a defeatist attitude, which also doesn’t jive with me.

Many of the regulations in place today absolutely have a net positive impact on public health. Even many regs enforced by the FDA. Anyway, I’m just wondering what your solution is if big govt is the problem. Thanks.

What you’re saying is possible but understand that things will shift and settle in the 90 years since she went down. Most plane wrecks I’ve seen photos of show mangled fuselages, snapped off wings, tail sections, etc.

Every time this debate comes up, someone suggests that companies like Twitter are in violation of the first amendment when they remove a user's post. To me they often sound like the ignorant ones.