Pass Behind That CRJ: The Radio Call the Black Hawk Never Heard

On January 29, 2025, an Army Black Hawk and a regional jet landing at Reagan National collided over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. All 67 people on board the two aircraft died. This video rebuilds the last minutes from the investigators' own records: the NTSB final report (AIR-26-02), both flight data recorders, the jet's ADS-B track, the helicopter crew's GPS track log, and the original FAA tower recording, which you hear in the video. It answers the questions people still ask: why the helicopter was above its 200-foot route limit, why the crew couldn't see the jet through night-vision goggles, and which radio words never reached the helicopter. It also covers what the Army's own investigation, made public on October 8, 2026, added. The 3D reconstruction was built for this channel; times, altitudes and positions come from the records. Subscribe for the next investigation, rebuilt:    / @flightpathrebuilt   Chapters 0:00 Pass behind that CRJ 0:55 Two flights 2:34 The corridor 4:27 The last two minutes 7:42 Above the limit 8:58 Could they see each other? 10:47 What the investigations found The 3D aircraft are simplified CRJ700-class and UH-60-class models with no airline or unit marks. Positions: the jet from its ADS-B reports; the helicopter from the crew's GPS track log, with its last 15.6 seconds rebuilt from its own flight data; altitudes and attitudes from the flight data recorders (NTSB public docket DCA25MA108). Night-vision and cockpit views are reconstructions, not recordings. Map and scenery (all public domain): USGS/USDA NAIP aerial imagery (recent, not from 2025), USGS 3DEP terrain, FEMA USA Structures building heights, U.S. Census Bureau TIGER roads and hydrography, OurAirports runway data. The radio audio is the FAA's own tower recording from the NTSB docket (public domain), cut, level-matched and faded, with the words unchanged; it stops before the collision. Cockpit lines are shown as text from the NTSB transcript. NTSB report pages are public domain. The Army investigation is quoted as reported by AVweb and The Washington Post. Educational content, not flight training or safety advice. Sources (claim IDs match the on-screen source lines): National Transportation Safety Board — Aviation Investigation Report AIR-26-02, Midair Collision over the Potomac River, PSA Airlines Flight 5342 and US Army Priority Air Transport Flight 25, Washington, DC, January 29, 2025 [C1]: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/A... National Transportation Safety Board — Public docket DCA25MA108, item 23-A: Cockpit Voice Recorders and Air Traffic Control Combined Transcript [C2–C4]: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/?NTSBNum... U.S. Army — Army Releases Findings from Administrative Investigation into January 29, 2025, Midair Collision [C5]: https://www.army.mil/article/296045/a... AVweb — Army Report IDs Failures in DCA Midair Collision [C6]: https://avweb.com/aviation-news/army-... The Washington Post — Army report cites systemic flaws that led to fatal DCA midair collision, by Alex Horton, Tara Copp and Dan Lamothe, republished by The Spokesman-Review [C7]: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/202... Stock footage and photos — Pexels License: Артем Дворецкий. Public domain / CC0 media: NTSB Aviation Investigation Report AIR-26-02, p. 132 (Figure 55, simulated NVG view) (National Transportation Safety Board); NTSB Aviation Investigation Report AIR-26-02, p. 207 (Figure 72, Route 4 cross section) (National Transportation Safety Board); NTSB Aviation Investigation Report AIR-26-02, p. 299 (Probable Cause) (National Transportation Safety Board). #Aviation #NTSB #DCA