How to make sense of a plane crash?
An air traffic controller's perspective
I read the news today, oh boy
Like many, not least those in Washington D.C. itself, the first thing I read this morning was the news of the devastating plane crash over the capital city of the U.S. Somehow, a military Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane collided in mid-air over the Potomac River. This appears to have occurred o…