Originally Posted by
WHBM
There were a number of aircraft around in the dark, which makes repeated unqualified reference just to "the CRJ" quite liable to error. I still wonder if the "Can you see the CRJ ... pass behind the CRJ" was being interpreted as the aircraft on the ground lining up on 01, the nearest aircraft to them and just on their right. They could see it, and they turned to pass behind it.
Unlikely. The helicopter crew was told about the CRJ approaching 33. At the moment of that initial traffic advisory it meant, the CRJ would first cross their flight path from right to left, and then later on final (circle to land) from left to right. Did they simply expect still the former, seeing the second jet approaching 01, misjudging the timing / distance as to the CRJ, and therefore turning right to pass behind / give way to an approaching aircraft espected to turn any moment and cross their path from right to left?
