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Simcox crashed his helicopter into power lines near DUrville Island on March 13, 2015. The crash happened at about 5.30pm when the helicopter hit a power line which spanned the French Pass. The impact caused one or both of the main rotor blades to come in contact with the cockpit, before the helicopter descended sharply into the sea, the report said. The Police National Dive Squad recovered Simcoxs body from the wreckage two days later. An Aircraft Accident report prepared by the Civil Avi...

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In an airplane crash, if theyre able to retrieve that, they can learn a lot. theyre not going to have that ability in this, right? >> no, theyre really not. unless there was some direct communication that he had to someone on the ground about why he was where he was and what was going on, theres going to be a lot of questions that need to be answered, and only tim had those answers, i believe. >> also, it does not appear, david, that the pilot was ever in contact with atc. is that strike you as ...

Crashed his single engine plane into a building on 72nd street, there was a lot of concern that might have been some terrorism. it turned out to be a horrifying accident, he ran out of fuel. again, after that the faa came out and said heres the deal, if you of the east river in two of the river those are called vf are corridors, visual flight rules meaning that you have to,u are not talking about being on radar you are talking about visual flight rules and you have to be 1,100 feet above the riv...

Whats called visual flight rules, otherwise known as see and be seen. >> think of it as driving your car. you avoid traffic by seeing it and not putting your car where theres another car. the airplane works in visual flight rules the same way. >> see and be seen is a catastrophic failure in two deadly collisions between the same two airlines, twa and united. the first crash is over the grand canyon on june 30th, 1956. >> these two pilots were having to deviate around thunderstorms, build-ups tha...

Did they see a transponder hit? the f-16 using a chance ponder? the pilot even though practicing a bad weather approach, it is his responsibility to keep his eyes out the window and fly by visual flight rules, even though hes practicing bad weather procedures. >> incredible the instruments at the end of the day you have to use your highs to look out the window. these two planes two different systems, one military, one civilian civilian would they have any capability of seeing the other on radar ...

Air traffic control system, the burden of maintaining separation between commercial aircraft fell mainly on pilots. they kept their distance using whats called visual flight rules, otherwise known as see and be seen. >> think of it as driving your car. you avoid traffic by seeing it and not putting your car where theres another car. the airplane works in visual flight rules the same way. >> see and be seen is a catastrophic failure in two deadly collisions between the same two airlines, twa and ...

Landing. he had technology available but chose not to use it. >> was there someone in the branson tower who realizes saying you are going into the wrong place? >> well, i mean, i i dont know know if there is fault. the pilot will check in ten miles out. i flight whatever and i am coming in and have the airport in sight and landing visual flight rules and the air traffic controller said great and moves on to the next thing. he assumes the pilot sees the airport and will land like any other pilot ...

Our report earlier, you know we were trying to get into tacloban, and we were not able to move in. a weather system had moved in and we had to scramble just to get back here. i want to check in with chad myers, and get a sense of where the weather system is affecting people on the ground in a matter of hours in tacloban. chad, there is a lot of concern on the ground here about the weather. how does it look? >> well, you know, your flight was cancelled because of it, turned around. other flights,...

So all these other people cant land either. all these things were trying to get in, all of this equipment, this is the radar. i just found this philippine radar. its amazing. right there would be the air strip. they can fly around this. the problem is, you dont have instruments. this isnt like an ifrr airport anymore. you cant land in a fog or rain showers. if its low clouds, you need visual flight rules to see that runway to get that plane on ground. this is not helping >>ed cha, thanks so much...