Rescue efforts will continue into the following days.
Just moments later, other voices can be heard gasping in the tower.
A woman appears to exclaim Oh my God.
Immediately following the crash, another voice says, Did you see that?
The air traffic controller then proceeds to rapidly direct other planes to land or divert to Dulles International Airport.
I just saw a fireball and then it was gone.
Both the helicopter and the plane crashed in the river.
Could have been looking at another aircraft.
Many tried to assign blame.
Thats ATC transferring responsibility for collision-avoidance to the Black Hawk crew.
@Snakeriver123 commented: The helo was flying VFR so it was visual only on the helo.
The plane was in there [sic] blind spot directly above.
So there will be an investigation my guess is this will not be friendly to the air traffic controller.
And naturally, some jumped straight into conspiracy theories.
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Intentional, wrote one X user.
Looks deliberate on the part of the helicopter, wrote another.
One particularly skeptical commenter postulated: Russia hacking BH?
Werent we warned there will be terror in the skies abt a week ago?
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