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Mountainguy

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48. I think there

Thu Jan 30, 2025, 01:39 PM

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Is a high chance the UH60 pilots were wearing night vision. Maybe getting in hours for night flight quals.

In that case their field of vision would have been even more deteriorated and probably mostly looking down to navigate with the river. Didn't realize the plane was approaching 33 instead of 1 and didn't think they were in an danger of contacting it.

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