Sean Bell: Why the same airspace?

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A key question in the crash investigation is how both aircraft ended up in the same airspace, military analyst Sean Bell says.  #Planecrash #WashingtonDC

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00:00So, we've got some time to wait, but let's just talk about the rhetoric that President

00:04Trump, as you mentioned there, has surrounded this. He said that military helicopter was

00:10just flying too high. Do you think this could have contributed to the collision, or do we

00:15just not know until we've got these reports through?

00:19I think it's always dangerous to go too far speculating. I'm a big fan of the Air Accident

00:24Investigation doing their job, but I suspect one of the areas they will be focused on is

00:29how did two airplanes end up being in the same patch of sky? As I said, it does look

00:33like the civilian aircraft was following the correct track. It was in the right approach

00:38path for runway 33 on that evening. So, the question is, why was the military helicopter

00:44at 400 feet, not as it's meant to be, at 200 feet?

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