AA5342 Down DCA

[RetiredF4]

Originally Posted by DIBO

And all this on three* separate frequencies, not fully cross coupled, so TWR was receiving on several occasions, simultaneous/parallel incoming R/T calls (* based on info from other posters in both threads here on pprune & NTSB info - but I still have doubts PAT25 was on UHF, although 3 or 2 freq's, doesn't really matter in this accident's context)

And simulations by VASAviation and the likes, are heavily edited (as they correctly indicate in their comments), so they easily give the impression that traffic and R/T comm's were relatively light...

In the linked article after the first paragraph is a link to the ATC radio communication. I think it is unedited, the crash happens after17 minutes.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1...ntroller-radio