REPORT: Black Hawk pilot appears to be to blame for tragic accident

Data reports are finally coming in regarding the tragic collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger flight.

The two collided over the Potomac in a corridor that was very busy with both fixed-wing and helicopter traffic.

As such, helicopters have a ceiling of 200 feet, but the Black Hawk appears to have been flying well over that.

Too High

With a max ceiling of 200 feet in this corridor, the radar showed the Black Hawk traveling at 300 feet.

Now, the radar rounds up, so the Black Hawk would have been traveling anywhere from 251 to 349 feet, but the black box for the plane showed the plane at 325 feet at the time of the collision.

The Black Hawk was reportedly a training flight on this very subject. It was reportedly a familiarization training flight in the corridor.

The data also showed that the plane's pilot did try to pull up at the last second, but from the video I saw, the Black Hawk appeared to fly directly into the plane.

And to be clear, the plane had been given clearance to land, so I am not even sure what the Black Hawk was doing that close to the approach at that moment.

All told, 67 people died in the crash, with 66 of the bodies having already been identified.

All bodies were recovered.

Of the 67 dead, 64, including crew, were aboard the American Airlines flight, with the remaining three all being soldiers on the Black Hawk.

The bulk of the plane has been salvaged from the river, and they are expected to start to bring up the Black Hawk this week. The plane was salvaged first because they believed there were still bodies trapped inside the plane, and they wanted to get them identified for family members.

The death toll of the passenger airliner makes it the deadliest passenger airline crash in more than two decades in this country.